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By WATSON FENIMORE China, at which Allied military ineffectual and wavering allies, the American chiefs.
President Roosevelt died Thurs- strategy was made and plans laid Italians. Further plans were made for the
day at the height of a world leader- for the final and complete rout of In January of 1943 followed the ·eventual downfall of the Japanese,
ship under which he was preparing the world's enemies. Casablanca conference of the Pres- plans which included the principles
to carry out another mandate .of The first of these was in De- ident and Churchill. Allied policy on which B-29 bomber bases would
his fourth term election-that of cember, 1941, shortly after Pearl crystallized further at Casablanca be made available to American
guiding this Union to victory in Harbor, when Churchill came to in agreement that nothing short forces in China.
peace as well as in war. Washington and a decision was of unconditional surrender of the From Cairo, President Roose-
His emergence as a world leader made to first crush Germany and Reich would be accepted, thus velt and Churchill proceeded to
along with Prime Minister Win- then to throw the entire Allied ruling out any chance for a nego- Tehe~an in Iran for the first face-
ston Churchill of Great Britain and might against Japan. tiated peace of benefit to the Nazis. to-face talk with Stalin. At this
Premier Stalin of Russia began It was at this meeting that the Next was the first Quebec meet- conference specific details of the
with the historic Atlantic confer- overall plans of the war- the grand ing of the Anglo-Saxon leaders- second-front operation were de-
ence with Churchill off our eastern strategy of the fight- were mapped. in August, 1943. Here groundwork cided.
coast in 1941. Africa Drive for the second front-long clam- Another Roosevelt - Churchill
There, conferring on board Next of the major meetings was ored for by Russia-was laid and meeting at Quebec in September,
American and British ships, the a second Washington conference plans were made for the Pacific 1944, brought forth a decision to
President and Churchill evolved the with Churchill in May of 1942 when war strategy. intensify the war against Japan.
Atlantic Charter of fundamental plans for the North African offen-
principles for which democracy sive were laid. Big 3 Meet Then followed in late January and
In December, 1943, came the first February of this year the Roose-
would fight. It was these plans which finally
Vital Meetings led to the ouster from North Africa conference involving leaders other velt-·Churchill-Stalin meeting at
Then in fast succession came the of the late German General Rom- than Mr. Roosevelt and Churchill. Yalta with its decisions on post-
series of meetings with Churchill, mel, "The Desert Fox," his famed This was the Cairo meeting where_ war policies and control of Ger-
Stalin and Chiang Kai-shek of Afrika Korps, and the Germans' Chiang Kai-shek met the Anglo- many.