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...Americans were there to get guarantees against use by the Axis of any French possessions in the Caribbean. Purpose: to lock up the French warships in the area-the aircraft carrier Béarn and the cruiser Emile Berlin at Martinique, the cruiser Jeanne D'Arc at Guadeloupe-and some 100-odd weather-damaged fighter planes...
...shore batteries to speak of, and not one airfield-so that the 100-odd dismantled U.S. planes which have sat there since the fall of France could not be used in defense. That Martinique is defended only by an old washbasin of an aircraft carrier, the Béarn, and a first-rate light cruiser, the Emile Bertin, whose crews cried when they heard that France had capitulated to the Germans and who since then have hoed beans and corn ashore and bickered angrily about Vichy's waverings. He knows that the total French defending force comprises not more...
...spokesman of the Chinese Arn ies made an unprecedented announcement to Chungking's foreign correspondents last week. Four days short of four years had gone by since the guns of the Japanese Army had blasted an end to peace in Asia. It was time for the weekly press conference. But the conference, said the spokesman, would be canceled. There was "nothing to report...
from doing the same. Until November a British containing force cruised outside the spacious (15 sq. mi.), deep harbor of Fort de France, bottling up the French warships inside: the old, waddly carrier Béarn, the cruiser Emile Bertin, a few lesser ships, and U.S. warplanes-now partly dismantled, salt-bitten, obsolescent but still useful if they were overhauled-which the Béarn had brought...
...Western Hemisphere, in Martinique, Guadaloupe and French Guiana, where 80% of the officials were reported for De Gaulle, plebiscites were planned. In Martinique harbor lay the cruisers Emile Bertin and Jeanne d'Arc, the aircraft carrier Béarn with 130 U. S.-made airplanes aboard...