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PREFACE
  This volume of documents on the conferences at Washington (1941-
1912) and Casablanca (1943) is published in continuation of the spe-
cial series of Foreign Relations volumes on the World War II
conferences attended by President Roosevelt or President Truman,
along with Prime Minister Churchill or Marshal Stalin, or both of
the latter. Volumes previously published in this series were entitled
The Conferences at Cairo and Tehran, 1943; The Conferences at Malta
and Yalta, 1945; and The Conference of Berlin (The Potsdam Con-
ference), 1945. Conferences still to be covered in this series are those
at Washington in 1943 and Quebec in 1943 and 1944.
  The principal compilers and editors of the present volume were
Fredrick Aandahl, William M. Franklin, and William Slany. Sub-
stantial work was done on the initial collecting of documents for this
volume by Edwin S. Costrell, S. Everett Gleason, and Isaac A. Stone.
The volume was reviewed by the undersigned.
  The technical editing of the volume was the responsibility
of the Publishing and Reproduction Services Division, Jerome H.
Perlmutter, Chief.
  In order to make this volume as complete and accurate as possible,
the editors supplemented the data available in the Department of
State by obtaining source material and information on these con-
ferences from a number of individuals and agencies outside the De-
partment. The Historical Office would like to express its sincere
appreciation for this assistance. Particular acknowledgment is made
of the extensive help received from the Historical Division of the
Joint Chiefs of Staff and from the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library at
Hyde Park, New York. Quotations from certain of the books and
manuscript collections listed in the Introduction to the volume have
been made with the kind permission of the respective publishers and
archival authorities. The photographs were supplied through the
courtesy of the British Central Office of Information, the Library of
Congress, the National Archives, the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library,
and the U.S. Army Photographic Agency.
                                         WILLiAM M. FRANKLIN
                                         Director, Historical Offiee
                                       Bureazu of Public Affairs
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