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1) Joseph Stalin was invited (although he did not attend), and both he and Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek were kept advised of the proceedings.
2) Both the chief conferees took their top military advisers for land, sea & air, called in their field generals in Africa.
3) The conference lasted for ten days. Even allowing for the President's and the Prime Minister's love of telling stories, enjoying themselves, and sightseeing, the length of their meeting indicated that they had thrashed out serious matters.
The announcement that they had "completed their plans for the offensive campaigns of 1943" sounded like no overstatement of the facts. But even as the President and the Prime Minister met, their military task was changing. Their first object in Europe and Africa had been to relieve the Red Army of German pressure; it was now to capitalize upon the Red Army's successes (see p. 30). Continuously on the offensive since the war's start, Germany was suddenly on the defensive—a defensive which may be nevertheless strong and hard to crack. Essentially, the Allies' task in Europe and their task in the Pacific were now identical: to find the cracks in the enemy defenses, to take the war to Berlin and Tokyo. The chances still were that the first destination would be Berlin.
* A reference to Frenchmen who aided the Loyalists during the Spanish Civil War, were imprisoned in North Africa by Vichy, are yet to be freed.