Word: dakar
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...Dakar? The Axis reported angrily that the Allies had blockaded Vichy's port on the hump of West Africa and were about to seize it. If so, the Allies were aiming at a point of constant threat to the mid-atlantic, to Brazil (1,800 miles away) and to vital ports of entry in mid-Africa. But Allied action at Dakar could scarcely relieve Russia or even loosen the German hold on the Mediterranean...
...consider. Once the vast Sahara was considered a sufficient barrier to guard the heart of Africa from invasion by forces using Vichy-controlled Tunisia and Algeria as a jumping-off point. Mechanized warfare changed that concept. If the Germans conquer Egypt, they may turn south. French North Africa and Dakar, the continent's westernmost base, in the hands of Axis-enslaved Vichy can never be anything but a danger to the security of Africa as a great crossroads of the United Nations...
...Madagascar attacks were launched, he conferred first with German Consul General Krug von Nidda, then with General Alphonse Juin, who succeeded General Weygand as Commander in Chief in French North Africa. Asked if the Madagascar attack increased the possibility of United Nations' action against Dakar, Laval sputtered: "Why ask me? Why not cable Roosevelt...
...Berlin inspired rumors that the Allies were about to move on Dakar...
...Germans were merely stirring the African pot to confuse the Allies. Perhaps Berlin was justifying, in advance, a thrust into West Africa. Perhaps Berlin had realized that, with Brazil in the war, the Allies now had a hump of their own, only 1,800 miles across the Atlantic from Dakar...