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Relations between the western Allies and the USSR were still delicate.
The longest-standing difference was about the territory and boundaries of Poland. Stalin was trying to get the Allies to consent to the
USSR's retention, after the war, of all the territory taken from Poland by virtue of the German-Soviet pacts of 1939. On January 16, 1943, the Soviet government announced that Poles from the border territories in dispute were being treated as Soviet citizens and drafted into the Red Army. On April 25, the Soviet government severed relations with the London Poles, and Moscow subsequently began to build up its own puppet government for postwar Poland.
Besides the issue of Poland another disputable question was the postwar fate of other European states still under German domination. But the Americans and the British were really more interested in maintaining the Soviet war effort against Germany than in insisting, at the risk of offense to Stalin, on the detailed application of their own war aims.
"Sextant", the conference of November 22—27, 1943, for which Churchill, Roosevelt, and Chiang Kai-Shek met in Cairo, was, on Roosevelt's insistence, devoted mainly to discussing plans for a British-U.S.-Chinese operation in northern Burma. Little was produced by "Sextant", except the Cairo Declaration published on December 1: a further statement of war aims.
