chapter 1 "in Due course" - A short Phrase Making Complex Political Dynamics = 1 The Second World War and the Change in the Balance of International Political Forces = 2 Political Strategies of the Belligerent Parties-Contradiction and Duality = 7 The US Programme for the "Postwar GlobalStructure = 15 The Cairo Declaration and its Shadow = 18 Chapter 2 The Scramble of the Big Powers for Korea = 32 Rooseveit-Proposer of trusteeship = 35 The Memorandum of the US State Department = 41 The Roosevelt-Stalin " Gentlemen's Agreement" = 48 Taltks between Truman's Emissary Hopkins and Stalin = 53 Avarice of Chiang Kai-shek = 60 The US Desperate to Find a Local Proxy = 73 Secret Bargain between the US and Japan = 83 he Proposal for Joint Occupation by the Four Big Powers = 91 chapter 3 Child of the US-Soviet Conflict and Compromise = 97 Unilateral Advance is Not Politically Desirable -the US-Soviet Diplomatic Campaign = 98 The 38th Parallel North-the First Official Record = 126 A ChiId of US-Soviet compromise = 138 What Were They after? = 151 chapter 4 The "Cold War" Freezes the 38th Parallel as a Line of Political Division = 156 1945-A Year of Disappointment and Crisis = 158 Conference of Foreign Ministers of the Soviet Union, the United States and Britain-Same Bed but Different Dreams = 175 Disruption of the USSR-US Joint Commission = 186The Korean Question and the United Nations = 216 Tragic Demarcation along the 38th Parallel = 222 Conclusion = 233.