Word: casablanca
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...ours, so we don't want to mess it up more than we have to," Deyo told his gunnery officers. But Deyo's guns and Hennecke's demolitionists messed it up considerably before Commodore William A. Sullivan, the U.S. Navy's port-restoration expert from Casablanca and Naples, could move in and start putting it to rights. Alongside his Seabees worked Army Engineers of the new Port Repair Ship Company, nicknamed "sailjers," using plans for Cherbourg's rehabilitation which had been made a year before its liberation...
...British agreement would be worthless unless Washington endorsed it. No one expected the U.S. Government to grant De Gaulle & Co. outright recognition. But Algiers was optimistic, hopeful that le grand Charlie and Franklin Roosevelt would get along far better in Washington, than they did last year in Casablanca. Cracked a foreign diplomat in expectant Washington: "Us ne passeront pas devant le maire* but there will be a common-law marriage...
After the Germans invaded France (machine-gun "rays . . . made . . . deep incisions [in] the loathsome yolks of eggs fried in boiling oil") Count Grandsailles was sent to Casablanca by the Vichy Government. Vichy thought he was loyal. But the Count was chiefly interested in planting more & more cork trees. "All I want," he told the admiring North Africans, "is an Arab revolt within 48 hours." "You shall have [it]," cried Communist Professor Brousillon, "but it may cost the lives of several Communists...
...Unconditional surrender" was coined at the Casablanca Conference in January 1943. Prime Minister Churchill pointedly gave President Roosevelt full credit for it, told the House of Commons that he "concurred." Its acceptance altered, toughened British propaganda policy toward Germany. Both Churchill and Roosevelt repeatedly tried to soften the harsh threat by assuring the people of enemy countries that unconditional surrender would not mean their destruction. But the propaganda weapon they put in Hitler's hands could not be offset by qualification...
Dodgers. Strong in the outfield, weak in the infield, as usual. Star Pitchers Whitlow Wyatt and Rube Melton are both 1-A. Rookie pitcher: Tom Warren, veteran of Casablanca...