Franklin Roosevelt actually said...

Their purpose is that Japan shall be stripped of all the islands in the Pacific which she has seized or occupied since the beginning of the first World War in 1914.

Context

Joint Communique with Churchill and Chiang Kai-shek on the Cairo Conference.

11/30/1943

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