Word: chadness
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...Pleven was a zealot for continuing the fight. After he had pointed out that Equatorial Africa depends for its livelihood on the British-controlled coastline, after he had told the inhabitants what would happen to their economy if they refused, one by one the five colonies (Cameroun, Chad, Gabon, Middle Congo, Ubangi-Shari) voted to put themselves under De Gaulle without reservations. Even so the old pro-Vichy governor at Brazzaville had to be wrapped in a blanket and deposited across the border in Belgian...
Many observers took all this with more than a grain of salt. Heavy Nazi infiltrations have long been reported in French Morocco. Fortnight ago it was said that French North African troops had crossed the Sahara to a camp near the De Gaullist headquarters around Lake Chad...
...reported that a French North African column had marched south across the Sahara to N'Guigmi on the northwestern shores of great, marshy Lake Chad, base of General Charles de Gaulle's Free French forces. And to the West African port of Dakar convoys kept bringing artillery, armored cars and tanks apparently returned to Vichy by the Nazis. This week General Maxime Weygand flew to Vichy, rushed to confer with Marshal Pétain. A Vichy-De Gaullist clash for France's African Empire-even war between France and Great Britain-seemed near...
Anatomically speaking, Henry Fonda is well-situated in the co-featured "Chad Hanna." This circus tale by Harvardman Walter Edmonds '26 is in technicolor, with Linda Darnell's entire back and Dorothy Lamour's legs combining to give Henry a ninety-minute frustration. We feel for you Henry...
When the raiders struck again last week, the British were working with General Charles de Gaulle's forces once more. As before, a Free French column pressed up the ancient Faya-Tekro caravan route from Chad, swung out into the Libyan desert, where they were joined by the British. This time they even had planes to help them. They raced in over the Cufra oases, an important refueling centre for Italian transport planes supplying Italy's East African Armies, smashed the airfield and opened the way for a successful attack by mechanized ground troops...