Word: quebecs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
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...