The except is taken from Roosevelt and Churchill speech given in the Casablanca Conference in Morocco in 1943, along with the Combined Chiefs of Staff, to discuss the strategy and study the next phase of the war. This meeting was the first time an American president left American soil during wartime. Participants also included leaders of the French government-in-exile.
The top priority was on destroying German U-boat patrols in the Atlantic and launching combined bombing missions. Most important, in a controversial declaration, they announced that the Allies would accept only unconditional surrender from the Axis powers, a decision that caused consternation on all sides as too extreme and allowing too little room for political manoeuvering.
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