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Whatever Franklin Roosevelt or Winston Churchill said-or did not say-the real story of their meeting in Quebec's Citadel would be acted out step by step, in the answers by action to these questions...
...Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill found the right answers, Quebec's Citadel, where the end of New France was once written by the great Wolfe, may again become a landmark of history. If they did not, their conference may some day be known as the most tragic failure of World...
...Citadel itself, the grim grey fortress where Roosevelt and Churchill lived and worked on the Plains of Abraham 300 ft. above the broad St. Lawrence River, went China's earnest Foreign Affairs Minister T. V. Soong-a hint that real action might be on its way in the Far East...
Otherwise the conference was shrouded in secrecy. No one could get near the Citadel. On Sunday morning the Anglican Bishop of Quebec, the Rt. Rev. Philip Carrington, felt justified in complaining mildly to his congregation that the conference might as well have been held in another world for all that Quebec residents could...
After a three-hour parley in historic Chateau Frontenac, Prime Ministers Churchill and King drove to the moated, ivy-draped Citadel for lunch. Later they called socially on leaders of the Quebec provincial government. Astute Winston Churchill did not neglect to speak French in the company of French Canadians. Then he parted briefly from his host for sight-seeing at Niagara, where he shopped for scenic postcards and remarked: "I've never seen the water look so green...