Word: dakar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Trinidad is the southern spearhead, where defense is most urgent because it lies athwart the most practicable route for an enemy move from Dakar in western Africa, thence to some landing point on the eastern hump of South America, and northward to the Canal Zone, Central America, the U.S. itself. Geographically, Trinidad is also in a position to protect-or to dominate-the whole uncertain reach of northern South America. So far it is not a protection but only a position...
...garrison northwest Africa was serious indeed to the British. If such a campaign succeeded, the British would practically have to abandon the western Mediterranean and Germany would have another base for the Battle of the Atlantic, as well as a steppingstone on the route to South America via Dakar...
...tons of fruit; 35,000 of sugar, 12,000 of cocoa, 5,000 of meat and 3,000 each of fish and rum. The reason why Britain let all this slip through was doubtless reluctance by Winston Churchill to risk a third bloody clash like those at Dakar and Oran, but the problem of food for France had both London and Vichy on tenterhooks...
...After failing to take Dakar, Free French forces under General de Gaulle...
Last week's legal action followed reports that the gold, by German demand on Vichy, was being shipped by airplane from Dakar to Marseille for delivery to the Nazis. Aim of the suit (which had the tacit support of Washington): to establish that if the Belgian gold goes to Germany, France will have to make gold from its own gold (estimated at $500,000,000) "frozen" in the U.S. by Washington decree...