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These were the reasons-if any did-which came nearest to justifying the deal with Admiral Jean Francois Darlan. By peaceful arrangement with Dakar's Governor General Pierre Boisson, U.S. troops last week entered that disputed port, and the Allies' African communications improved...
...lunch was in honor of crusty, one-legged Pierre Boisson, Governor General of French West Africa (including the port of Dakar). The three men who joined him were Kansas-bred Lieut. General Dwight Eisenhower, Commander of Allied Forces in North Africa, Irish-born Admiral Sir Andrew Browne Cunningham, Commander of Allied Naval Forces under Eisenhower, and Admiral Jean Louis Xavier Francois Darlan, newly self-proclaimed "Chief of State in French Africa...
Present. From Boisson and Darlan the British, through Admiral Cunningham, wanted: 1) permission to use Dakar as a base against Nazi U-boats in the South Atlantic; 2) use of French Fleet units at Dakar. From Darlan in particular, Eisenhower wants the status quo maintained in Morocco and Algeria so that there will be no transport interruptions or rear-guard threats to Allied forces now attacking Tunisia...
...public statement: "All Frenchmen worthy of their country's great past have forgotten their small differences of ideas." To Darlan, who still maintains the fiction of acting for Marshal Petain in France, there came messages of support from a scattering of French colonies. A message from Boisson's own West African native group, the Legion of Black Africa, ended with the salutation: "Vive le Marechal [Petain], Vive la France...
...Reported the United Press: "Increases in the land garrison and arrival of heavy fleet reinforcements have swelled the white population from 15,000 to 50,000. Women and children are being evacuated. Governor Pierre Boisson ordered them to leave, remembering how civilians clogged the roads during the German invasion of France. A serious housing shortage has arisen. There is plenty to eat, [but] there is no gasoline. Huge piles of cotton, tanned hides, coconuts, coffee, dried fish and tons of vegetable oils are rotting in the warehouses or on the wharves. Planters fear they will lose fortunes...