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Pierre Laval's actual plop into power took Mr. Hull unawares, as it did everyone else in the State Department. But the air was cleared. Now the Vichy sore spots-Dakar, Madagascar, Martinique, North Africa-were almost beyond the reach of diplomatic medication, would if necessary have to be dealt with by the sharp war instruments of the United Nations...
...news for the sailors keeping open the United Nations' lifeline around Africa to the Red Sea and beleaguered India. Hitler might now take full control of Dakar as a base for cutting the lifeline in the South Atlantic, and the Japs (if Hitler didn't mind) might get Madagascar as a base for cutting the lifeline again in the Indian Ocean...
...Indo-China was yielded to the Japanese, with the catastrophic results visible since Dec. 7. Last year Axis planes used Syrian airports en route to Iraq. Recently Vichy shipped gasoline and other supplies to the Axis Libyan armies from French North Africa. Rumors that Axis submarines work out of Dakar have constantly been heard, if as constantly denied...
...From Dakar to the English Channel, short-range U-boats prowled. Above the Channel, the Nazi surface warships (and more subs) were dispersed against the threat of British bombers. But all were within a few hours' steaming of the supply line up the Norwegian coast to Russia. Their dispersion gave them more than protection from air raids: it also made them hard to watch...
...waited for Japan to move and got Pearl Harbor, if we wait now we will see unopposed German entry into Tunisia, Martinique, and Dakar. At times sitting on the fence may be permissable, handcuffing yourself to it is never so. The Allies must stop making their plans on the Nazi timetable and must move against French bases at their own time, not at Hitler...