The Second Quebec Conference Revisited

Download or read book The Second Quebec Conference Revisited written by David B. Woolner and published by New York : St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In September 1944, Churchill and Roosevelt met for a second time in Quebec City -- the only city outside of Washington where Churchill and Roosevelt met more than once. This meeting would prove to be their last major bilateral one in the series of conferences that had begun three years, earlier in Placentia Bay, off the coast of Newfoundland. That first meeting produced the Atlantic Charter, the set of guiding principles intended to govern international relations with the coming of peace. Now, with the end of the war in Europe in sight, it was time for the two men to reflect on how the ideas of the Charter might applied in practice. It was also time to begin the serious business of mapping out strategy for the final defeat of Japan. The Second Quebec Conference Revisited is a remarkable collection or essays which results from an international conference of American, British, and Canadian scholars organized by McGill University, the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute and the FDR Library to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the Second Quebec Conference. The essays examine the critical state of Allied relations in the fall of 1944 when the possibility that the war in Europe might soon end produced unexpected strains in the transatlantic Alliance. In addition, the essays discuss the important, though often overlooked, Canadian contribution to the war. Overall The Second Quebec Conference Revisited provides a new and enlightening perspective on the historical significance of the second Quebec Conference.