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...Marshal Lyautey in building France's African Empire, arrested M. Daladier, kept him aboard his steamer Massilia guarded by Senegalese troopers. Off Casablanca lay six French cruisers, 21 submarines, 20 trawlers and minesweepers, 60 tankers and other vessels; also the incomplete new battleship Jean Bart, towed down from Brest with only four forward guns mounted. These, too, were to defend French North Africa...
...kept out of Axis hands, even though not used by Britain, a slim balance of sea power would still remain with Britain, especially since the Royal Navy claimed to have again damaged the Scharnhorst at Trondheim. Stories conflicted about what ships the Germans had been able, to seize at Brest and St. Nazaire...
...west, German armored columns thrust steel fingers around one seaport after another-St. Malo, Brest, Lorient, Nantes, St. Nazaire, La Rochelle-reaching for Bordeaux. German and Italian bombers repeated at Bordeaux their performance of last fortnight at Tours, dumping death into the overcrowded city to panic the populace and complete France's demoralization. This stopped only when white flags were flown in a wide circle around Bordeaux...
Only near the sea was the French withdrawal from the Seine not an unrelieved debacle. There, from Cherbourg, Brest and St. Nazaire, fresh units of a new British Expeditionary Force, a "broomstick Army," began pouring in, true to British promise. Some were veterans of the ill-starred expedition to Norway. Some were survivors of the retreat to Dunkirk. As fast as their meagre equipment got ashore, these latecomers sped across Normandy and Poitou to meet the German tide. Those who had seen him before, even more than those who had not, longed for a crack at "Jerry...
...British bases. Britain's coastal batteries have long range but are old. Heavy units of the Royal Navy, scarcely daring to contest invading forces in the narrow straits area, would probably withdraw to stations up the west British coast or down the French coast at Le Havre Cherbourg, Brest. To light units, though vulnerable to air bombs, would fall a large part of the defensive work...