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Article: Symbol of paradox: the Casablanca Conference, 1943.
- Article from:
- Canadian Journal of History
- Article date:
- April 1, 1993
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The tide of the Second World War visibly turned, in the eyes of those who fought it, in 1943. The Allies were at last able to apply military power on a scale large enough to carry the war to the enemy. Yet that enemy remained formidable. Different vested interests remained operative. The men who directed the war from the centre in the United Kingdom and the United States operated with very different perceptions of their respective margins of power. Despite their growing abundance of materiel, the Allies faced awkward shortages of several essential items. These factors virtually dictated that at each crossroad of events a conference of principals was necessary, in order to ...