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Life and Victory. "On this assumption [that Germany will be beaten first], it would be our hope that the United Nations, headed by three great victorious powers, the British Commonwealth of Nations, the United States and Soviet Russia, should [then] immediately begin to confer upon the future world organization, which is to be our safeguard against further wars...
While in the U.S. Anthony Eden will have the run of the White House, will confer with Wendell Willkie, Soviet Ambassador Maxim Litvinoff, Chinese Foreign Minister T. V. Soong. He may make one formal speech, perhaps in Maryland (over which his great-great-grandfather, Sir Robert Eden, once ruled as colonial Governor), plans also to visit U.S. war plants, military and naval establishments...
...fortnight, sitting under the Florida sun, Secretary of State Cordell Hull had found plenty of time to rest and think. Back in Washington to confer with Anthony Eden (see p. 9), he expressed one of the opinions he had reached: the war would last longer, according to all reasonable calculations, than most citizens now believed...
Spaatz and Tedder would not argue that they are fighting an unconnected war. Their main objective is the same as the ground troops'. Tedder and Spaatz confer often with Eisenhower and General Sir Harold Alexander, General Ike's chief of ground operations. They compose the tune. Spaatz arranges and conducts it. Doolittle and Coningham bang...
General Dwight Eisenhower and General Sir Harold Alexander arrived on the battlefront-Eisenhower to confer with his Allied officers, Sir Harold to take personal command of the Allied troops retreating across central Tunisia. The situation early last week was that critical...