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Braid and Brains. For their second Quebec conference, Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill were each accompanied by his country's general staff. Their top diplomatic aides were believed en route. And the number of lesser lights and technical experts ran into the hundreds, enough to fill the Chateau Frontenac's 800 rooms. No less than 300 WACs were detailed for clerical work. Both Winston
...last week Franklin Roosevelt had been busy with conferences pointing toward Quebec. He appointed Secretaries Stimson, Hull and Morgenthau as a special Cabinet committee to work out U.S. proposals for unkinking the economy of liberated countries, met the committee three times in three days. He had his first full-dress session with the Chiefs of Staff since his return from the Pacific. He summoned Robert D. Murphy, soon to be the top U.S. diplomat in Germany. He had a chat with British Ambassador Lord Halifax (and made a bet with him-amount undisclosed-on the war's end-date...
Questions & Answers. The potential scope of the Quebec conference was enormous. Two topics stood at the very top of the agenda...
...London, which has frequently scooped the world on big diplomatic maneuvers, announced that a three-power conference would follow Quebec. And through Moscow censorship came a dispatch hinting that Russia might soon join the war against Japan...
...Noranda, in western Quebec, an old prospector slammed down four bags of gold ore on a hotel bar and shouted: "You don't have to figure what this rock runs to the ton; it assays by the pound." At the O'Brien mine near Kirkland Lake, Ont., speculators caressed a new-found slab of what mining men call "jewelry"-a ten-pound chunk of practically pure gold worth $2,000. At Noranda's golf course, golfers played around two gold-drilling sites smack in the middle of a fairway. The gold stock market reached its highest point...