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...ahead of schedule. Behind the First Army Western Africa appeared to be secure to the Allies all the way down to Cape Town. Admiral Darlan broadcast the announcement that French West Africa and Dakar had come "freely under my orders." Dakar had been won at last and after a bloodless battle. Despite official fears that press comments less brutal than President Roosevelt's forthright reference to the renegade admiral might upset the apple cart, Darlan apparently was still acting in accord with General Eisenhower's plans...
...Navy casualty list, published this week, showed that 2,317 Americans had been killed, wounded or missing from April 16 to May 10. To most of the U.S. the curt, dry list of names brought no shock. The war was still far away, bloodless, unreal, fought abroad by unknown...
...People Speak. To such families, the war was neither unreal nor bloodless. To them, Memorial Day had a fresh meaning. In the little towns, where everyone knew the boys off fighting and the homes now broken, the editors of weekly news papers spun the real story of the war. This was no sophisticated writing such as the military experts' speculations, or Government pressagents' idea of morale, or dry with the necessary callousness of communiques. But their writing told what the people were learning, with a mixture of grief and pride and anger...
...State Department won the first engagement in its bloodless battle with Vichyfrance for control of Martinique. Admiral Georges Robert, goateed commissioner of French possessions in the West Indies, agreed last week to disarm all his warships...
Little Acorn. BEW began only last August as a 50? edition of Britain's Ministry of Economic Warfare. All it had was Wallace, Perkins and a problem: in the delicate, murderous, bloodless warfare that is half diplomacy and half business, the U.S. was taking a bad licking...