Word: casablanca
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...shoe was on the other foot. Now there had been a Casablanca. More important, the Red Army* had risen on the count of nine and was mightily belaboring the Germany adversary. That greatest of propagandists, Stalin, had got up from a suppliant position and was now using the second-front issue as something very like a threat. Last week London turned out so enthusiastically to a reception in honor of the Red Army at Ambassador Ivan Maisky's house that one of the guests said: "We could easily open a second front right now if we just turned...
What those decisions were, only the campaigns of 1943 can tell. If they are German campaigns, they will not tell. But the urgency on both sides, of the Allies' earnest determination to fulfill Casablanca and the Germans' to frustrate it, there is no doubt. All around the profile of Europe there are signs...
Round-the-clock preoccupation with Cologne (submarine engines and parts), Wilhelmshaven, St. Nazaire and Brest (U-boat bases) bore out reports that one major Casablanca decision was to interrupt or abandon indiscriminate bombing of industrial targets. The chosen alternative: concentrate on submarine building centers and ports, thus easing the U-boat strain from United Nations supply lines...
...Casablanca"sounds as though some of the movie masterminds saw a good thing in the AEF's sortie in North Africa, and turned out a hurry-up job in the hope that the name would bring on a box office rush. If that was the original idea, it hasn't panned out, thanks to the noteworthy efforts of Ingrid Bergman, Humphrey Bogart and a supporting cast that really supports...
...fame as leader of the American Volunteer Group of "Flying Tigers" in Burma and who now commands the U. S. Army Air Forces in China, said he based his optimism as to the length of the Pacific War on reports from the United Nations "Unconditional Surrender" conference at Casablanca...