Word: casablanca
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...worry. It was now three months since the U.S. people had had the satisfaction of any decisive military action on the part of U.S. troops across the Atlantic. The U.S., instead of fighting, seemed caught in the worst meshes of international politics. The U.S. people had hoped that Casablanca would resolve some discords; in the subsequent letdown they could feel no emotion more constructive than restlessness...
...President called in his right-hand men in Congress and the Administration, gave them a quick fill-in on the Casablanca conference. He gave another resumé-more travelogue and good spirits than vital information-to his first press conference in over three weeks...
...first. But this defeat could be best accomplished, and quite possibly could only be accomplished, by coordinated Allied action. For that reason it was necessary for the U.S., Britain, Russia and China to get together on their war plans. Britain and the U.S., through the "unconditional-surrender" conference at Casablanca and through last week's North African High Command agreement, were in close liaison. The Russians still remained aloof. The Chinese, looking in the Anglo-American window, may well have moved, closer to the Russians...
...more than cheers awaited Churchill. Britain was on edge. The House of Commons was anxious to hear his report on the Casablanca conference. M.P.s hoped that he brought also favorable news of the military situations in Tunisia...
Pocket Play. New York Timesman Raymond Daniell last week described a scene at the Casablanca meeting between Generals Giraud and de Gaulle. Giraud had said that he had a plan for the union of all French forces in the administration of the French Empire. De Gaulle was interested, asked to see it. Giraud stuck his hand into his pocket. The plan was not there. He looked in other pockets. De Gaulle waited. Finally Robert Murphy spoke up. "Here it is," he said, reaching into one of his own pockets and handing the plan to Giraud...