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...would be absolutely fatal," added the London Economist just before .the Casablanca conference, "if, for their heraldic emblem, the United Nations chose an ostrich dormant on a heap of sand...
...conference at Casablanca showed Britain and the U.S. keeping close touch on military policies. There were no signs that it resolved any differences in political viewpoint between the two nations...
...incredible accuracy of U.S. naval guns at Casablanca, which at 26 miles smashed the hull of the French battleship Jean Bart in two salvos, was a triumph for the electron tube. Declared Rear Admiral Stanford C. Hooper last week: "Radio directed and reported the destruction." Even at the very hour that war began the electron tube was the first to serve the nation. On Dec. 7, 1941 the electron tube caught the mutter of Japanese aircraft when they were 132 miles away from Pearl Harbor...
...miles, or even 26, and the men at Pearl Harbor and Casablanca were no exceptions. But the electron tube can. What is more, the electron tube can hear, feel, taste, remember, measure, count and talk. Unable to think and without a conscience, the tube is still less than human. But with proper accessories it far exceeds the human senses (except taste and smell) in keenness...
Newspapers had been playing blindman's buff with the Roosevelt-Churchill Casablanca conference story ever since Jan. 9, when all editors were advised by Censor Byron Price: "The President is taking another trip. . . . Attention is directed forcefully to the Code provision restricting any information regarding [his] movements. . . ." By Jan. 25, when the printable news reached their desks, with another 32 hours before it could be officially released (at 10 p.m. E.W.T., the 26th), they had fidgets. Meanwhile they hinted to the hilt...