Word: casablanca
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...news correspondents in North Africa were flown secretly to Casablanca for a press conference* on the tenth day. They found well-pleased Franklin Roosevelt in the garden of the villa where he had stayed: he was comfortable in a light grey suit, the angle of his long cigaret holder was even jauntier than usual...
...guarded hotel above Casablanca's grey-green harbor Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt talked for ten days. The continent of Europe was their oyster, to be pried open, then stabbed with all the armed might at their command. How they would gain the opening, when & where they would strike, were the most important decisions...
...when Roosevelt and Churchill went to Casablanca, Generals de Gaulle and Giraud could both go without loss of face. The fact was that they had to go, so as not to be left out of the plans that were made there. What passed at their meeting was as secret as other decisions in Casablanca, but they shook hands for cameramen. Their official announcement said only...
From an Arab leader, 2,500 miles across the desert from Casablanca where President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill were discussing policy, came a call last week for the extension of the Atlantic Charter* to the Arab world. Said the Emir Abdullah of Trans-Jordan...
...enemy in the middle of it. Rommel remains a wily tactician. It may be a knot that will tie the Allies up so long that operations against southern Europe will be impossible this summer. Last week in the midst of his Tripoli drive Montgomery flew to Casablanca to confer on that subject...