Word: dakar
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...United States interested in an obscure, faraway island in the Pacific called New Caledonia? Why must we be concerned about a port in West Africa called Dakar? How do different types of soil and varying weather conditions affect the defense and power of any country? . . . Geography as we must study it . . . is a study of differences in environment and their effect on men's lives...
...usual gossip-born answers: a German turn to the south in an all-out effort to rid the Mediterranean of British power and avenge the Libyan defeats ; a German move against Turkey; German occupation of Spain, Portugal, an attack against Gibraltar; German assumption of the French Fleet, occupation of Dakar...
...hotel men in Bizerte, Dakar, Casablanca brushed up their German, grinned with short-sighted satisfaction as their rooms filled up with men who paid their bills, made no complaints, ate early breakfasts and disappeared...
...credit, work done in the army after actually leaving Harvard--engineering or flying training being the equivalent of courses in college. Failing this, a degree-bound Senior could do some study in absentia and get his diploma later. Everyone won't be on active duty in Hong Kong or Dakar, and if Thomas Paine wrote "The Crisis" on a drum-head to the sound of musketry, Harvard men should be able to turn out a course paper in an army camp...
...suggestion that Germany has nothing to do with the Japanese war, and can safely be forgotten--along with (presumably) lease-lend aid, Britain, Russia, and Dakar...