Word: dakar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...keep the gold out of Nazi hands. The Bank of France shipped the gold to Bordeaux. There, when France had fallen and Nazi-French armistice was being negotiated, the Belgians tried to reclaim it. But the Bank of France refused to give up the gold, instead shipped it to Dakar. Ambassador Theunis' theory: the Nazis already had informed the French that they would have to give the gold to Berlin...
...continent: 100,000 in unoccupied France, which could at least be a nuisance; 2,000,000 prisoners in occupied France and Germany, whose cost of living the French were bearing. France still had a Navy, which was headed by Admiral Darlan-no lover of Britain since Oran and Dakar, but no lover of Germany either and certainly not of Italy; a man who loves only France and who could devise uses for his Fleet which would not be convenient to the Axis. France still had an economy. Last week Finance Minister Yves Bouthillier presented a budget for the first four...
Back to London after his fiasco at Dakar and his coup in Gabon went General Charles de Gaulle last week. Tired but still brisk, he went straight to No. 10 Downing Street to report to Prime Minister Winston Churchill. Later he broadcast an appeal to Frenchmen in France to hold out against the Vichy Government. "Free France," said its leader, "now has 35,000 trained troops under arms, 20 warships in service, 1,000 aviators and 60 merchant ships at sea." In a phrase reminiscent of Dakar (where De Gaulle forces withdrew rather than fight other Frenchmen) General de Gaulle...
...will provide stations from which the Navy can patrol the eastern entrances of the Caribbean. At Antigua the Navy will have the use of about three square miles on Parham Sound and also of a site on Crabs Peninsula across the harbor. St. Lucia, 2,600 miles west of Dakar and 1,150 miles from the Canal, will house a 120-acre seaplane base at Gros Islet Bay, and possibly other facilities not yet decided...
...Gaulle's efforts to nail down French colonies on Africa's west coast is that, in Axis hands, those colonies could base raiders to prey on Britain's supply line to Cape Town, Australia and around through the Red Sea to Egypt. Having failed at Dakar, the De Gaullists were pressing their luck elsewhere, as much as anything to keep colonists from succumbing to Axis pressure and Vichy subservience. The distance is too great, through too country, for Gabon or the Cameroons to serve as an alternative point of ingress to the Sudan. But some...