Talk:Casablanca Conference

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Why did Stalin decline to attend this conference?

Most likely because of the long, dangerous journey. Bastie 23:01, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

Another reason for his absent : at that time Stalingrad Battle was going on and it is dangerous for him to leave the high command and attend it. --Hiens 12:39, 11 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Declaration of Unconditional Surrender - the Prolongation of the War

One of the agreed term in that conference was to only accept from the Axis the Unconditional Surrender , This however considered one of the reasons to prolong the war as it has great impact on German moral and determination to forcedly push them into fight till the last drop of Blood! British Historian General J.F.C. Fuller in his Book The Second World War wrote "The effect of unconditional ....... I think there are many sources I mentioned which recognize the title of that paragraph !

J.F.C Fuller Book The Second World War , [George N. Crocker] (Chicago, 1959, p. 182), Colonel F. C. Miksche, Unconditional Surrender (London, 1952, p. 255), George N. Crocker, Roosevelt's Road to Russia (Chicago, 1959, p. 182) noted that the Germans fought on with the courage of despair, and that "Roosevelt's words hung like a putrefying albatross around the necks of America and Britain."

I wonder why Cuchullain ‎ remove it.--Hiens 04:14, 28 August 2007 (UTC)

For the reasons I gave in my edit summaries, and more. First, it's poorly written and improperly formatted. Also, the sourcing was problematic, and in some places nonexistant. It was also not neutrally written; it consisted of quotes from fascists and George M. Crocker, famous as a critic of Roosevelt, and pushed a point of view. It might be okay to mention that point of view, but it took up far, far too much space in the article. Perhaps if you said "critics of Roosevelt and Churchill, such as (JFC Fuller, Crocker, etc.) blamed the outcome of the Casablanca Conference for prolonging the war. And then included other historian's views on the conferences' importance. It could use some expanding, but it has to be neutral and verifiable first.--Cúchullain ^t/c 05:01, 28 August 2007 (UTC)