'Woser' factor

摘要

In January 1943, US President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill met with their advisors in Casablanca to determine their strategy for pursuing the war. Soviet premier Josef Stalin was applying pressure on the western Allies to mount a second front. The Americans favoured an immediate invasion of France across the English Channel, for which the Allies were not ready, while Churchill preferred to see an invasion of Italy - what he described as "the soft under-belly of Europe" The justification was that it would pin down German and Italian divisions, and give access to the airfields from where strategic bombers could reach eastern Europe to complement those based in the UK.