Provenance

Mary and Dan Solomon, Monarch Beach, CA; gift to NGA, 2018.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

on verso, center printed in purple ink on applied paper: MEETING NUMBER FOUR / AT THE PRESS CONFERENCE DURING THE FOURTH / AND GREATEST OF ALL MEETINGS OF PRESIDENT / FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT AND PRIME MINISTER WINSTON / CHURCHILL, THE CAMERA CAUGHT CHARACTERISTIC / AND VARIED EXPRESSIONS ON THE FACES OF THE / TWO ALLIED LEADERS. THE CASABLANCA CONFERENCE / WILL BE REMEMBERED AS THE MOST COLORFUL OF ALL / MEETINGS BETWEEN THE HEAD STRATEGISTS OF / THE ENGLISH SPEAKING WORLDS. IN ALL HISTORY, / NO GREAT EVENT HAS BEEN ACCOMPLISHED WITH SUCH / SECRECY. THE EXCITEMENT CAUSED BY THE ROOSE- / VELT-CHURCHILL RENDEZVOUS ABOARD BATTLESHIPS / IN THE NORTH ATLANTIC IN 1941 WAS SMALL IN / COMPARISON TO THE REACTION IN ALL NATIONS AT / THE NEWS THAT THE TWO LEADERS HAD MET AGAIN, AND / IN VITAL AFRICA, THIS TIME. HERE, THE AMERICAN / CHIEF EXECUTIVE AND BRITISH PRIME MINISTER / ARE SHOWN AT THE PRESS CONFERENCE WHERE THEY / OUTLINED THE RESULTS OF THE TEN DAYS THEY SPENT / TOGETHER, AND WITH THE TOP MILITARY FIGURES / OF THEIR COUNTRIES, IN CASABLANCA. / 1/23/.43 (JR) / WATCH RELEASE DATE -- FOR PUBLICATION IN / AFTERNOON PAPERS, MONDAY FEB 1ST. APPEARING ON / STREET AFTER 9 A.M. (EWT) / 675192 . . . . . . . . . . . . . NEW YORK BUREAU / IN THIS DRAMATIC PHOTO, PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT'S [underlined] / EXPRESSION BODES NO GOOD FOR THE AXIS. HE / WEARS THE LOOK OF A REALISTIC-VISIONARY WHOSE / PROPHECIES HAVE BECOME TRUTHS. THE UNCOMPROMIS- / ING LINE OF WINSTON CHURCHILL'S [underlined] MOUTH SHOWS / HIM TO BE THE STUBBORN LEADER OF A PEOPLE WHO / WOULDN'T GIVE UP. / BU IA MGS 80 CAN DJH / CREDIT LINE (ACME) 1/31/43 (JR); lower center Acme copyright stamp in red ink inverted