Word: quebecs
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Otherwise the conference was shrouded in secrecy. No one could get near the Citadel. On Sunday morning the Anglican Bishop of Quebec, the Rt. Rev. Philip Carrington, felt justified in complaining mildly to his congregation that the conference might as well have been held in another world for all that Quebec residents could...
Just before Franklin Roosevelt arrived in Quebec last week, a summer rain stopped, the sun came out, and a rainbow appeared in the southern sky. To some who waited at the railway siding, this was an omen. But most of the world would wait for better evidence...
Moscow leveled big verbal guns at Que bec, let go a warning salvo: Aug. 12- "The Soviet Government did not receive an invitation to be present at the [Quebec] meeting." Aug. 20 - The Quebec conference is "serving the interests of the Anglo-American forces," but does not "express the opinion of the entire Anglo-Soviet-American coalition...
Possibilities. Whatever move Soviet Russia makes, it makes no move haphazardly. There was concerted purpose in the sharp demands for a second front in Europe, in the official displeasure at being excluded from the Quebec conference, in the recall of Maisky and Litvinoff and the parallel with 1939. Joseph Stalin was saying that Russia does not necessarily have to accept the British-U.S. blueprint for war and peace; that if Russia disapproves the plans of its Western allies, if Britain and the U.S. ignore Russian demands and desires, Russia does indeed have a choice...
...Quebec the rumor was refloated that the Allies would, at long last, give some sort of recognition to the French Committee of National Liberation...