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Cocky, cynical Frank Kluckhohn put his foot in his mouth early this year when he heard about President Roosevelt's imminent arrival in Africa. Kluckhohn, who was in Casablanca, demanded transportation to Dakar, where he was sure the President would land. He got it, had a fine view of Dakar while Roosevelt conferred in Casablanca...
...toward the liberalization of General Henri Honore Giraud's North African Government (TIME, March 8) moved another step forward last week. In an order repudiating two anti-Jewish decrees, the Genera declared: "A decree signed in Vichy is not valid in North Africa." According to French reports from Dakar this week, all jailed De Gaullist and pro-Allied sympathizers have been freed. In the wind were negotiations for a settlement with the Fighting French, further decrees abolishing all Vichy laws...
...There he conferred with round, determined little President Getulio Dornelles Vargas, an "old friend." After long conversations, sometimes in Franklin Roosevelt's schoolboy French, sometimes through an interpreter, the two Presidents announced that they were determined to keep the Atlantic Ocean "safe for all," that Africa's Dakar must never again become "a blockade or an invasion threat against the two Americas." And once more the President rode in a jeep-with his Brazilian confrere-this time to review U.S. troops at the Natal air base...
...brief career at the side of the anti-Axis powers he had wrought good and evil. Dakar had fallen to the Allies without a shot. The progress of the U.S. campaign had been sped. But Darlan's assumption of power had also unleashed a storm of anger and criticism among Allied peoples, widening dangerously the already existing split between the supporters of Vichy and De Gaulle. It had involved the U.S. in a tangled skein of international politics which was becoming more & more involved. Termed by President Roosevelt a "temporary expediency," the Darlan regime was gaining a firmer foothold...
Would the French warships at Dakar and Alexandria (the battleships Richelieu and Lorraine, seven cruisers, six destroyers, ten submarines) be used against the Axis...