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      Chiang Kai-Shek. I think it was also the first time the President 
      had met the Generalissimo. By the luck of good weather I arrived 
      in Cairo on the evening when the Prime Minister was entertaining 
      the Generalissimo and Madame Chiang Kai-Shek, this leveler of 
      indestructible China had his most gifted wife. It was a most 
      memorable experience when the Prime Minister took his guests 
      and Aimiral Mountbatten, who is Supreme Allied Commander South 
      East Asia Command, and who, of course, also came to Cairo for 
      the conference into his map room, where for some hours we dived 
                deep into war plans and projects.           
 
                                                            
 
 
If I may just strike one personal note, I would say that it 
      is difficult not to be deeply impressed by the Generalissimo, 
      even at a first meeting. Some of my Hon. Friends have already 
      met him. I had never met him before, and that impression deepens 
      as time goes on. Under the outward gentleness and gracefulness 
      of this remarkable personality there is a core of supple steel. 
      His is a strength, you feel, that cannot be broken; it can only 
      be bent and then strike back with even greater force. From what 
      I have said, the House will understand how readily the Generalissimo 
      and our Prime Minister understood each other. They speak just 
      the same language of determination. And all through that evening 
      and many subsequent discussions and meetings Madame Chiang Kai-Shek 
      was always there to help us with her sagacious counsel, her unrivalled 
      experience of east and west, and her brilliant gifts as an interpreter. 
      I am sure the House will not wish me to apologize for giving 
      just this personal impression of meeting these very remarkable 
      personalities. As I have said, our military mission agreed in 
      Cairo upon future military operations against Japan, that we 
      also thought it well to take this opportunity to set out the 
      political principles for which we are fighting, and we did so 
                         in these words:                    
 
                                                            
 
 
"The three great powers are fighting this war to r %esist 
      and punish the aggression of Japan. They covet no gain for themselves 
          and have no thought of territorial expansion."    
 
                                                            
 
 
Such being our purpose, it is our determined intention that 
      Japan shall be deprived of opportunities for further mischief; 
      that she shall be expelled from all the territories, to whomever 
      they belong, which she taken and that reparation shall be made 
      to