European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 25, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                So years after k conference once banned film Claude Rains Paul Henreid Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman in a famous scene from Quot Casablanca fifty years fun e gone by and Casablanca is marking the  two unrelated events a historic conference of Allied Heads of state that charted the course of world War ii and the release of a movie that put the City on the map but has Neer been shown on atone can Tele Ision. By Hugh a. Mulligan a special correspondent you must remember this modern bit Wise Casablanca be ars scant resemblance to i Lumphrey Hobart s intrigue shrouded Metropolis of narrow alleys and Nel urious Cates. Bogeys Casablanca Rose 50 years ago on the Warner Bros lot with sets left Over from the musical desert song. Loday s real Casablanca is a City of .1.5 million to 5 million people with Palm shaded boulevards splashing fountains and Bower carpeted squares. Welcome to Africa s second largest Cit it which this year Marks the 50th anniversary of both the film classic Casablanca and the historic world War ii conference at which president Franklin d. Roosevelt and prime minister Winston Churchill adopted the policy of unconditional surrender for Germany and Japan. That conference opened Only eight weeks after american armoured and infantry units under maj. Gen. George s. Patton stormed ashore in Casablanca s treacherous High surf and in four Days of bitter fighting liberated the City from the Vichy French. Today Anne Cary the american Consul general resides in Villa Mirador up on Ana Hill which was Churchill s Headquarters. Her three children do their Homework in Churchill s Quot map room Quot where British and american generals and admirals planned the invasion of Sicily. Cary is not sure which was the famous Churchill bedroom where As Harold Macmillan noted in his diary the British prime minister Quot spent most of the Day a conducting the War from his  his Butler Sawyer served meals and highball while his Secretary Patrick shorthand notes in Between lighting his cigars from a candelabrum. But Churchill was Quot up most of the night Quot Macmillan noted Quot making it very try ing for the staff. He ate and drank enormously settled huge _ problems played a Pau Ign Bagatelle and Bezique by the hour and generally enjoy  Cary surmises that Quot the biggest bedroom which we now use As a guest room most Likely was his. Anyhow that s where i d have put  stripes Magazine february 2 it 199j