Word: catoctin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the conversation concludes, in the small hours, the resulting "Catoctin Declaration" proclaims agreement on eight major points. One of them: "Soviet and other totalitarian powers [will be] resisted by the creation of a world order based on freedom and abundance." Readers are likely to feel that with so many big fish in his net, perky Author Franklin has cooked a pretty small...
...CATOCTIN CONVERSATION (283 pp.) -Jay Franklin-Scribner...
Chumminess is Catoctin's keynote. "Of course," chuckles Roosevelt to Baruch, "you won't be interested in [sandwiches] made with that ham from Georgia, but there are some . . . made of sanitary Wisconsin cheese, just for you." Mr. Churchill often bounds off into sonorous oratory, uses words like "bloody" and "jolly." Mr. Baruch is a wise elder statesman who can feel things "in his bones." Mr. Hopkins, who represents the frustrated New Dealer, is sincere but tart, and has to be reprimanded by Roosevelt for using the word "stink" in front of Mr. Churchill. Author Franklin, who once worked...
...Word According to Welles. As a political statement, The Catoctin Conversation is warmly sponsored in an introduction by onetime Assistant State Secretary Sumner Welles. Stripped of its high jinks, the Conversation hinges on postwar Anglo-American-Soviet relations. To Churchill, rigorous Anglo-American unity is the best answer to Uncle Joe; to Roosevelt, such unity must never be carried to a point where it excludes Soviet-American harmony, nor must the U.S. take sides in Anglo-Soviet rivalry. "In his talks with me," says Sumner Welles, "Roosevelt never wavered in [this] conviction...
...civil servants streamed out of Government offices shutting down for the four-day Fourth of July weekend authorized by Congress, Mr. & Mrs. Truman left the White House in a car for President Roosevelt's Shangri-La, a lodge in the Catoctin Mountains, 60 miles from Washington. With them was unobtrusive Lieut. Commander William Rigdon, up from the ranks, now assistant to the naval aide. There were no other attendants. There was no motorcade and no newsmen. At the lodge the Trumans had fried chicken for supper, took in a movie, were abed...