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...press. The trouble with the Washington press, said he, was its efficiency. That was why he wanted to hold United Nations food conferences safely outside Washington. The President said newsmen had "pets" among many of the officials, and the officials had "pets" among newsmen. The North Atlantic and Casablanca conferences, he implied, were successful because the press was absent...
...Armored Division, he shone in southern maneuvers. The following spring he snorted off to California to organize the Desert Training Center. In the 120° heat he whipped a desert fighting force into shape. Most of the men he trained followed him overseas. He was assigned to seize Casablanca, which he did after four rip-roaring days and many blunders (not necessarily his own). At the end he strode into the headquarters of Admiral Michelier with a pair of pearl-handled .45-caliber pistols strapped to his legs and a tommy gun under one arm. So impressed was the Sultan...
Giraud does not conceal his dependence on Murphy and the U.S. (at Casablanca, a memorandum supposedly prepared by Giraud for submission to De Gaulle turned out to be resting in Bob Murphy's coat pocket). The recent Giraud speech on French unity showed definite signs of U.S. influence; there were reports that he framed it as he did partly because the U.S. threatened to withhold equipment from his French troops. But such manifestations did not necessarily prove that Henri Giraud was a mere opportunist. He probably gave a better explanation in Algiers, just after his unity speech, and just...
...weather-beaten Liberator bomber which had taken Winston Churchill to Moscow, Casablanca and Turkey eased down on Washington's airport last week, bringing Britain's handsome, faultlessly groomed Robert Anthony Eden on his second visit to the U.S. The first time, in 1938, he was temporarily out of public life in protest against Chamberlain appeasement-he came to make little speeches, lay wreaths and inspect CCC camps. This time, as Britain's Foreign Secretary, Leader of the House of Commons and Churchill's heir-presumptive, he came on urgent and secret business...
...Doctrine. Pale, birdlike Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder, who had planned the strategy for cracking Rommel's Luftwaffe in Egypt, had become Spaatz's boss by then. The Casablanca conference had given Sir Arthur command of Allied air from North Africa's west coast throughout the Mediterranean area...