Word: dakar
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...Italian Lati line this week still took off for Rome. A hulking Frenchman named Reynaud, in charge of this field, likes to remember how the big Air France boats used to go through every few days with gifts for him, fresh vegetables from Argentina, wine and fruit from Dakar. Since France fell, he has not even received his salary. (Pan Am's Natal chief occasionally gives him a conto or two.) But he still keeps a tarpalin well spread over France's only plane at Natal, an old Fokker; he cuts the grass on the runway; and every...
...evidence that Africa and South America may be parts of a single continent that have drifted apart came from British geologists. They reported finding gorceixite pebbles in Africa's Sierre Leone (south of Dakar) and the Gold Coast...
...while convoys left Freetown regularly on certain days. On those days Vichy planes circled over, flew back to Dakar to report to the Germans. When the convoy days were changed, the Vichy planes still came over. Baffled British officers suspected disloyal natives of relaying the news to Dakar by drumbeats. Last week Vichy was rushing harbor improvements at Abidjan, 800 miles southeast of Freetown...
Only West African reports pleasing to the Allies last week were Free French opinions that the Trans-Saharan Railway, now being built from North Africa to Dakar, would have little military use for years to come. It must cross 1,700 miles of shifting sands and jungle brush, is a building job as tremendous as the Panama Canal. Its chief current value to Vichy is as an unhealthy place to send political prisoners and refugees whom Vichy wants...
...Hitler succeeds in disposing of Russia this fall or next spring, it may be necessary once again to revise ideas of how the war is going. Britain has shown no signs of being able to resist a major Nazi attack on Africa-either toward Suez or Dakar. Also, if Russia falls, the Japanese are likely to cut loose-falling first on Siberia, later on Singapore, the Indies, Australia...