Talk:Cairo Declaration

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Photocopy of the Cairo Declaration U.S. National Archives & Records Administration (RG59), reproduction of Japanese National Diet Library shows no signatures. Copy of text can be read at wikisource or external website. Oniows 12:15, 5 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Why did you erase all the added text?

Oniows please state you reason when erasing all the added text. The Japanese National Library clearly stated the Cairo declaration was signed. The document you shown in the external link is merely a telegram to inform the radio operators of the time about when and what. Also the website you obtained the photocopy stated that it was signed but you choose to only include the picture. Why do you have to hide the desciptions? So I replace the external link to the page that has both the photocopy and Janpanese government offical descriptions. Please do not play any GAMEs here.

One last point. Japanese Instrument of Surrender, which is surely signed, clearly states the acceptance of the Potsdam Declaration which referred to this Cairo Declaration. Xplorer 23:27, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

The text of the Cairo Declaration is already stored at wikisource. Wikipedia is not the place for storing copies of documents.

The Japanese site says that a Cairo Declaration was signed at Cairo, November 27, 1943. The same site reports that a "Cairo Communiqué" was signed on November 22, 1943, but the associated picture shows an unsigned communique intended for release on December 1, 1943. Is the Cairo Communiqué the same as the Cairo Declaration? Oniows 01:19, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

Yes it is the same one, since the contents are identical. The 22 is believed as a typo since the same page also says 27. The document you shown is a photocopy of a world-time telegram to inform radio operator to broadcast the news. Of course there is no signature. It is like your emails. Does your email ever get signed by a human? (Telegram cannot include pictures like what we can do to email.) Even the text from wikisource says it is signed. The declaration was signed on 27 November and the communique is sent to all the radio operators which did not allowed them to be released before December 1.

If you have question on how telegram works, here is how. The operator send pulse signal and the other side recives through wireless link. The operator at the time needs to hear the signal by themself. The signal has long and short beep sound. The operator need to type what they hear by using typewriters. So a signature cannot be found anywhere on paper. (FAX machine, computer and scanner did not exist) Xplorer 23:27, 9 March 2006 (UTC)