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On November
1, 1943, "The Moscow Declaration", composed by Churchill,
was accepted by Roosevelt and Stalin. This documenpledged that those
who were responsible for German atrocities should be returned to the
countries where their crimes were committed and therefore be judged
on the spot by the people whom they had outraged. The three powers
pledged to do their utmost to see that justice would be done.
On November
28, Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin held their first joint
conference in Teheran. The leaders agreed on the following: that
Germany would be defeated before Japan; that the Western Allies’
invasion of the French coast, Operation Overlord, would be given the
highest priority and would be carried out in June 1944; and that as
Overlord was underway, the Red Army would launch an offensive on the
eastern front. Stalin repeated his commitment to join the war
against Japan after Germany surrendered. The Teheran Conference was
considered especially successful. The Allied leaders regarded the
strategic coordination they had achieved, in contrast to the
disarray among the Axis powers, as one of the keys to the success of
their policy. |
