Word: casablanca
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...newsmen and women who trouped into the oval study (23 more than had greeted Franklin Roosevelt at his first press conference after Casablanca) full well expected a good show, a high state drama. Many had been awestruck day before with the eloquence of Madame Chiang in Congress (see p. 23). They were not quite prepared for what followed...
...counteroffensive. Some say he wants to raze Berlin, as so many Russian cities have been razed. They are unanimous in believing that there is no thought of a negotiated peace in his stubborn mind. They are satisfied that the reason he did not attend the Casablanca conference was that he was busy at his desk directing the crucial stages of his offensive-and last week's news seemed to bear this...
...Obviously we shall have to think of some," Mr. Churchill told a laughing House of Commons last week. "Indeed, this was one of the more detailed matters which we discussed at the conference at Casablanca...
...businessmen, tuning in on the first Presidential address since Casablanca (see p. 75), had good reason to prick up their ears. In a speech in which he mildly chided Labor and Farm leaders for obstructionist tactics, the President failed also to chide Business...
When President Roosevelt returned from Casablanca, White wrote: "Well, it is now 60 hours since the Old Smiler returned to the White House from his great adventure. . . . Biting nails-good, hard, bitter Republican nails-we are compelled to admit that Franklin Roosevelt is the most unaccountable and on the whole the most enemy-baffling President that this United States has ever seen. He has added a certain vast impudent courage to a vivid but constructive imagination and he has displayed his capacity for statesmanship in the large and simple billboard language that the common people can understand. . . . Well, darn your...