The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-28
. INTERNATIONAL SPOTLIGHT
Lack Of News At Quebec Conference
 Best Promise Of Bigger Events Later

ory that the President has apolog- ized to the press for anything. Us- ually, the White House Spokesman is the habit of banning the press for its shortcomings and wishing 1t would apologize for behaving the way it does. There must be some thing about this clear Quebec air where (California please note) the sun is warm in the daytime but you have to sleep under a blanket every night. Or maybe it's those Quebec trout, the catching and eat- ing qualities of which the President plugged so hard. If a weeks diet of Canadian trout does things like this to a mans disposition, there should be more Quebec conferences.
 The thing must have been . love feast all the way through. The President said that this spot was the best yet for 8 conference, and that he and MT. Churchill had said SO dozen times. Yes, it was true meeting of minds in every respect. When the President praised the hos pitality of Canada's Prime Minister Mackenzie King, Prime Minister Churchill cut in with "hear, hear!" Cheah, heah," the way he said iD and later on, at the close of the session, Mackenzie King came through with the assertion that the visiting press had helped put the country on the world map. Church. i'll himself, in his remarks, ad- mitted that though differences of opinion must arise when the staffs are working together, extreme cor diality prevails. You can judge from this just how things are.
 THE PARTICIPANTS had gone through a series of conferences without controversy. The first line in a Washington correspondents copy book being, mo controversy, no news, no good," that Quebec Conference might be put down as a news flop. But it wasn't. You have to read between the lines of the Presidents and Prime Minister Churchil1's remarks to get the full significance, of the Quebec Confer ence, which is briefly this:
 l. The military action planned at the Washington Conference in June, 1942, was carried out in North Africa in November.
 2. The action planned at Casa blanca is just being carried out now.
 3. For news of the action planned at Quebec, you'll have to wait till it happens, and these things don't happen overnight or over the week. end. They take time. Prime Minis ter Churchill asked the press to give the bes. aid 1t could in spreading a feeling of confidence without re- vealing all there is to know. The President echoed this need of con- fidence of the people back home, and since he was so nice and apologetic about not being able to tell all he knew at this time, it is only fair to cooperate by passing along the word.
 JUST AS THE PRESIDENT made his request for the confidence of the people at home, somebody rang a dinner bell at the Citadel by way of accidental emphasis. At the begin- ming of the conference, the sky was overcast. It had rained the night before the thin. low clouds hung over the Citadel, just skirting the tops of the fagpoles over the Kings Bastion with its 17th-century cal- non pointing out over Old Quebec and the St. Lawrence River.
 There was no breeze, and the three flags of Canada, the United King dom and the United States hung Imply at their masts. On 8 fourth mast hung the Presidents own blue flag. Then, just at the end of the conference, after the President had read his statement, a good breeze came up from the west. The four flags stood out straight from their masts, the clouds broke, the sky turned bright blue and the sun came out strong. Maybe 1t was symbolic.