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...Pierre Boisson, Vichy's territorial Governor at Dakar, flew to Vichy to see Marshal Pétain. Reported reason: the Nazis had demanded the right to base bombers at Dakar...
...have had good reasons: Axis submarines might have concentrated on Brazilian ships intentionally to provoke war and thus to draw bigger U.S. forces into the South Atlantic; Axis strategists might be trying to cut communications between Brazil's vulnerable hump and the south, preparatory to an attack from Dakar...
Credits & Debits. The biggest Brazilian contributions to the United Nations, however, are political and geographic. Only 1,800 miles from Vichyfrench Dakar, the Brazilian hump provides a handy springboard for a possible future attack on that already half-hostile base. Because of its size and influence, belligerent Brazil elbows the whole South American continent closer to World War II. Already there are signs that Uruguay may follow Brazil's lead, that Chile may break relations with the Axis. This may help to balance the activities of Argentina, Brazil's chief rival for influence over smaller South American countries...
Farther west, where the bewildered Vichyfrench still clung to the ghostly pretense of control, the ground rumbled too. Two British planes swept over Algeria, were shot down by French craft. (Two more fell before French attack down the west African coast below Dakar.) Through that defeat-darkened land German technicians, military men and tourists prowled...
Vichy has five great battleships. But the 35,000-ton Richelieu, damaged in the British-Free French attack on Dakar, is reported unable to move, now serves as a floating fort for Dakar. Its sister ship, Jean Bart, towed to Casablanca at the war's outbreak while still incomplete, has possibly not yet had all its guns mounted. Fully repaired or nearly so, after the battle of Oran, are the 26,500-ton Strasbourg and Dunkerque, the 22,000-ton Provence, all in Toulon. There are also eleven heavy and light cruisers, six supposedly en route to Madagascar...