Word: casablanca
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...hilly, verdant, sun-drenched Trinidad. There the President inspected the new U.S. naval base, had tea with Governor and Lady Bede Edmund Clifford. He also picked up his personal Chief of Staff, Admiral William D. Leahy, forced to stop off at Port-au-Spain on the trip to Casablanca by one of the most untimely cases of influenza in recent history...
Deadlock. But there was no sign from any quarter last week that the political shake-up which Correspondent Middleton called for would be forthcoming. Having met in Casablanca, Generals Giraud and De Gaulle, key men of the two main factions of divided France, had retired again to their respective headquarters...
...Hunger. Not from Dr. Hsu himself but in reports from China there was documentation last week for the Hsu thesis. The Casablanca conference decision to demand the unconditional surrender of Japan as well as Germany and Italy allayed some Chinese fears that the Pacific theater might be allowed to degenerate into a stalemate peace. The fact that China was kept informed of military decisions proved that China was not forgotten. But the fact that China was not invited to attend left a sour taste...
...blitz scattered British homes but it tidied up British thinking. It gave the British an idea of what they wanted. Last week they hoped that "the most important and dramatic announcement" of World War II would come out of the Roosevelt-Churchill conference in Casablanca. When they found no Four-Power Pact had been formed, no evidence of a United Nations grand strategy council, no inspired program of joint political action, Britons wrote off the conference as just another meeting between their good friend Franklin Roosevelt and their old war horse Winston Churchill. A wit cabled that popular response...
...their tight little isle the British have dreamed and schemed of a symphony of nations, of what Foreign Secretary Robert Anthony Eden has called an "orderly law-abiding" society which will make the world "one village street from Edinburgh to Chungking." This week, in the pessimism following Casablanca, such concepts seemed far more a dream than a scheme...