Word: quebecs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Second Quebec Conference, concluded last week after six days of discussion, fell into two main divisions...
Chief difficulty of the conference, said the two beaming principals, as they lectured the press* on the sundeck of Quebec's Citadel, was how to find enough work for all hands in the Pacific. Winston Churchill had come to Quebec alarmed at the U.S. Navy's rambunctious theory that it could finish the Pacific war by itself. Said he: "You shan't have all those good things to yourselves. You must share." Final results at Quebec seemed to promise just this...
Area No. 2 of the Quebec discussions was on the fate of postwar Germany. Here the two principals kept mum. But it was obvious that a plan for the management of postwar Germany had received much attention. Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden flew through heavy weather to bring a brief case full of British proposals. Treasury Secretary Morgenthau rushed to Quebec, presumably to discuss monetary and economic problems of occupied Europe. And Winston Churchill had with him a close chum, Lord Cherwell, whose genius for reducing difficult problems to clear charts and graphs has recently been applied to matters of currency...
...beyond the technical details of occupation, the question of Germany's fate was largely political. Russia, unrepresented at Quebec, must be considered. Reports from London said that Russia was disturbed over an Anglo-American "frontier" in Occupied Germany...
Administration Fellowships, for students who wish to follow a career in the government service but who may not have had any actual experience, have been awarded to: Lawrence Cohen, Hartford, Connecticut, graduate student at Harvard; William Hamovitch, Outremont, Quebec, public administration student at Harvard; and Donald G. Hanson, Charlottesville, Virginia...