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Pressure of Possibilities. The time called for long-range policy, and Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill are by nature improvisers. Their previous meetings have followed the pattern set in their first war council in the North Atlantic, when the U.S. was not yet in the war, Britain had yet to win her first victory and the atmosphere was as heavy with ifs and buts as the Atlantic fog that surrounded them...
...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...
...News Chronicle felt a "sense of big events to come." Britons remembered Winston Churchill's prophecy of last June: "Very probably there will be heavy fighting in the Mediterranean and elsewhere before the leaves of autumn fall." From within and without Festung Europa, men scanned the pattern...
...battles as intricately planned, as painstakingly put into operation as the movement of great armies on the ground. It is a war in which each airplane flies in strict coordination with hundreds of others, in which every bomb dropped contributes its share to a carefully planned pattern of destruction. This pattern, by its cumulative effect, is designed to bring Germany to her knees...
...these raids are linked in a pattern planned to anticipate countermoves of the Germans. The Fortresses can-and have-fought their way through any kind of opposition to their targets; German defenses have never yet turned them back. But the less opposition they encounter, the more effective is their bombing. The Allied offensive is planned to assure the minimum of resistance...