Word: casablanca
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Climax. Winston Churchill was the first to arrive at Casablanca; the President landed a few hours later. Their discussions began at once: the first started at 7 p.m. of Jan. 14, lasted until 3 o'clock next morning. Between conferences, the President found time to visit American troops in the field, to place wreaths on the graves where American and French soldiers lay buried at Port Lyautey...
...days, in the enclosure of a Casablanca hotel surrounded by barbed wire and bristling guards, they conferred, discussed, mulled over their problems. They were in close touch with Russia's Joseph Stalin, who was too busy with war on his own soil to join them, with China's Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek. They brought together, for the first time, the two leading figures in the tangled French political situation: Fighting French General Charles de Gaulle and General Henri Honore Giraud, High Commissioner of French Africa...
...absence of Stalin and Chiang Kai Shek from the ten-day Casablanca conference should not be construed in any way as meaning that they were excluded from the proceedings," Wild explained, since it has been stated definitely that they were kept in constant touch as negotiations proceeded...
...meeting between Roosevelt and Churchill has laid a real foundation for coordinated United Nations action, then it was an event of historic significance; otherwise it can mean very little," Wild said, although adding that the evidence at present indicated that a great deal more had been decided at Casablanca than could or would be released...
With characteristic drama, Tanker Patton took the surrender of Casablanca's commander with two pearl-handled automatics on his hips, a tommy-gun in the crook of his arm. But another side of Georgie Patton, the smart leadership that makes him a soldier's soldier, was clearly shown in his pre-invasion order of the day, released last week by the War Department...