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Arguments that Dakar and the French flect might be turned over to the Axis if the U. S. took decisive action on Vichy collaboration may have been valid in the days when that regime was still playing mouse to Germany's cat, but with Laval in command of all military and political resources, France becomes a full fledged member of the still growing corporation. Vichy's navy will be on hand when the Axis is ready to use it, and with every indication of the start of a spring offensive, that time must be near...
Word reached London that Vichy had sent two cruisers and three transports from Dakar to Madagascar. Vichy said it would fight for the island if necessary. Allied strategists wondered whether that meant a fight only to prevent the Allies from moving in first...
...this kind of warfare, submarines were the only craft that could hope to avoid the Caribbean's watchful air patrols. Where they were based, no one but the enemy yet knew. French bases were suspiciously near: Dakar, 3,150 miles; German-occupied Brest, 4,300 miles from the Caribbean. Small, unguarded islands off Central America might have been fitted out as refueling bases...
Well fortified, with its 1,089-foot Pyramids looking far to sea, Fernando de Noronha should make a bristling outpost between South America and Dakar. On the six-by-two-mile island there is already a small airfield, built by Air France before the war. Since the war began, Brazil has been building hangars and fortifications...
...fought in both World Wars. In June 1940 he was captured by the Germans at Cherbourg. Three days later he jumped out of his prison train and made his way, disguised as a Norman peasant, to the Channel coast and eventually to London. He led the unfortunate assault on Dakar, where he took some lead in his thigh. After he recovered from his wound in French Equatorial Africa, where he organized Free French merchant shipping, he went to Canada to lecture, back to London to broadcast, and then, on the destroyer Le Triomphant, out to romantic Oceania to resist...