Word: quebecs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Whatever Franklin Roosevelt or Winston Churchill said-or did not say-the real story of their meeting in Quebec's Citadel would be acted out step by step, in the answers by action to these questions...
...Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill found the right answers, Quebec's Citadel, where the end of New France was once written by the great Wolfe, may again become a landmark of history. If they did not, their conference may some day be known as the most tragic failure of World...
...Quebec change the pattern? There were a few hopeful signs, mostly on the military side. Great strategic decisions were obviously made. The baronial, turreted pile of the Chateau Frontenac, famed old Quebec hotel where conference advisers lived, was so full of gold braid that the eyes of bellhops and chambermaids were dazzled. Rumor said that colonels were sleeping two to a room...
Life on the Fringes. Brown-haired Subaltern Mary Churchill had a busy, flattering vacation. Quebec girls sent her bundles of fan mail. She went shopping, headed straight for the underwear counter, confided to the clerk: "The ones I've got on, I made out of the skirt of an old evening dress." She held a press conference, described her father as "awfully nice to work for and not a bit difficult...
...From the Quebec Conferences, many observers believed Canada would emerge with a greater war role. To direct that role effectively, the Liberal Government needed more solid popular support. Perhaps Winston Churchill's figurative pat on Mackenzie King's back would help...