Yalta and the Far Eastern Agreement

Abstract

In the spring 1945 Crimean conference at Yalta, the leading Allies, Roosevelt, Stalin and Churchill, signed a secret agreement concerning China. What follows in this chapter is an account of the intelligence that Fu gathered in Moscow about the conference agreement and possibilities of Allied collusion regarding Chinese interests. The intelligence that Fu gathered was vital to the Chinese leadership because, unknown to Chiang Kaishek,¹ the United States and Great Britain had agreed to give Soviet Russia certain privileges in China, as a reward for Soviet entry into the war against Japan, and Moscow’s promise to conclude a joint Treaty of Friendship and Alliance with China.² The agreement that was settled is known as the Far Eastern Agreement, and it stipulated the following.