Word: dakar
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...Vichyfrench at Dakar, receiving Admiral Jean Francois Darlan (see p. 27), still expected Allied invasion...
...days after these dispatches, two French officers arrived in London from Vichy territory with reports that 500 planes* and most of Vichy's African naval strength had been massed at Dakar, that only 15% of Dakar's white inhabitants were ardently pro-Vichy, that 500 German "civilians" and 166 German officers were there...
Anglophobe Admiral Françcois Jean Darlan, chief of Vichy's armed forces, made a flying tour of French African bases. Over the Dakar radio he warned the populace that "new dangers hang over...
...first time in months Vichyfrench censors gave clearance to dispatches from inside Dakar...
...Reported Le Temps' correspondent: "Dakar is gay and full of life, a condition produced by the presence of so many soldiers and sailors...