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...Vichy had recommissioned the 26,500-ton battleship Dunkerque and made it ready for action. In French North Africa and Dakar, German "technicians" were reported arriving by the score. In Paris, Marcel Déat, ablest spokesman for collaboration, urged open war against General de Gaulle to recover the lost colonies...
...eleven months -enough, it was hoped, to keep him friendly; not enough to make much difference if a more pro-Axis general replaced him. The Free French, who now control twelve colonies, went unrecognized, got no direct Lend-Lease aid (except via the British). Strategically vital Martinique, French Guiana, Dakar and the other French possessions were left alone...
...Cabo de Hornos the new passengers found friends-57 other refugees from the Alsina and the same Dakar camps. The Cabo de Hornos turned her white bows north and east again toward Rio and Hitler's Europe...
...their first ship, the Alsina, set out from Dakar, Vichy changed its mind. For four and a half months the refugees were held aboard the ship while it lay at anchor off the African port. It was worse than a concentration camp. There was no torture, only heat, hardship and the constant reminder that they had once almost been free...
When the ship reached Rio de Janeiro, the refugees found that their visas were good for only 90 days-90 days they had spent at Dakar-and the Brazilian authorities would not let them ashore. A few days later the boat sailed again, on a forlorn chance that perhaps Argentina would admit them...