Summit at Casablanca
... Copson in his article, Summit at Casablanca, discusses the conference that Franklin D. ... Copson a foreign affairs specialist with the congressional Research Service at the Library of Congress discusses the conference at Casablanca that was considered a success for the United States and Great Britain. ... In the article, Summit at Casablanca, Roosevelt and Churchill forge a close friendship as their countries join forces against Hitler. ... Medical officers tested all the food and liquor the two leaders would consume in Casablanca. ... The success at Casablanca was partly due to Roosevelt’s sympathy for aspects of the British position. ... The conference at Casablanca was considered a victory because Churchill’s strategy prevailed. The Casablanca agreement also called for an extended bombing campaign against Germany, continued efforts to provide war supplies to the Soviet Union, and increased efforts to assist the Nationalist Chinese against Japan. ... At Casablanca, Roosevelt argued that the experience of two world wars showed that German society had been “Prussianized” (67) and needed to be rebuilt. The Casablanca agreements were a historic achievement, and the two leaders considered the meeting a success.