Word: quebecers
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...separate cars, the Churchills and the Roosevelts motored up the steep hills to Quebec's Citadel, an ancient fortress, surrounded by a deep moat, its entrance barred with iron chains the width of a man's forearm...
This news had not yet dampened the American faith that soon there will come a day which they can celebrate without reservations. The U.S. kept its eyes on the Siegfried Line and on Quebec...
...Canada for his eighth wartime conference with Franklin Roosevelt. He had crossed on a transport crammed with furloughed G.I.s. The singing ended with God Save the King and the train pulled out. Next day it ground to a stop on a siding at Wolfe's Cove, at Quebec. Franklin Roosevelt was there, sitting in an open car, his eyes shaded by a big Panama. The sky was cloudless, a paler blue than the blue St. Lawrence hard...
Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill got set for their eighth meeting of the war. Perhaps deliberately, their meeting place was one of the war's worst kept secrets. Even Broadway columnists seemed to know it. Last week they chanted: Quebec. The New York Post ran an article called "Some Reasons Why Quebec Would Be Ideal for Coming F.D.R.-Churchill Conference."* The conservative Associated Press, which scrupulously observes censorship, mentioned Quebec...
...London, "Dicky" Mountbatten, looking fit and showing no trace of an eye injury received in the jungle last spring, told at last why operations in his command had been so maddeningly slow: landing craft allocated to him after the Quebec Conference had been sent instead to the Mediterranean, for landings at Anzio and on the Riviera. Result: he and General "Vinegar Joe" Stilwell (who now sports his full general's four stars for the first time) had had to cut their campaign suit from a remnant...