Word: quebecs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...night during the Quebec Conference, Jean Marie Rodrigue, Cardinal Villeneuve, Archbishop of Quebec, had dined with President Franklin Roosevelt and Prime Minister Winston Churchill. Thereupon he canceled a projected trip to Mexico. A big Lancaster bomber flew him from Montreal to Britain (it was the first plane trip of his 60 years and he loved it). In London he stayed in a darkly elegant house behind Westminster Cathedral as the guest of Archbishop Bernard Griffin, called briefly on Canadian High Commissioner Vincent Massey and other officials. He had an audience with King George...
...intimate friends, he worked until 7 p.m., and sometimes far into the evening. His work baskets were usually filled with details of his current specialty: relations between the U.S., Russia and Britain. (He did much of the skull-work for Franklin Roosevelt's meeting with Churchill at Quebec...
...highest sources in Washington insisted that the Morgenthau plan was not only still alive, but would yet turn out to be the final plan, though modified. According to these sources, his plan had been "bought" by Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill at Quebec, despite heavy objections from Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden. After the hubbub has died down, Henry Morgenthau's proposals supposedly will then reappear as the official U.S. proposal...
Whatever Roosevelt and Churchill decided at Quebec about future blows against Japan remained a military secret. But there were signs that the Allied military disaster in Kwangsi Province (TIME, Sept. 25) might compel changes within China and thus lead to better things...
Back to Manhattan dashed Archduke Otto of Habsburg. Week before he had dashed to the Quebec Conference, at nobody's invitation. The Archduke was worried: the Red Army might reach Vienna before he did. What then would become of his plan for a Danubian federation...