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With the U.S. occupying Iceland, Germany's vital objectives in the Battle of the Atlantic are to the south: the French port of Dakar, Spain's Canary Islands, the Portuguese Azores and Cape Verde Islands. Last week in France and Spain the Nazis continued their advance on these bases, using for weapons (since their others were occupied elsewhere) pressure and propaganda...
...Middle East and Turkey toward Egypt and Suez; 2) from Libya down through French Equatorial Africa, the Belgian Congo and Portuguese Angola (by transport plane) toward British South Africa; 3) from Spain and Spanish Morocco across Weygand's Morocco and West Africa (by persuasion or force) toward Dakar. The road to Dakar has already been improved and Dakar is the strongest fortress on the Atlantic coast of Africa...
...Gaulle was not to blame for the failure at Dakar; news of his mission leaked out from a dinner in London, tipped the Germans off. But Dakar cost him prestige and French West Africa. In French Indo-China Governor General Georges Catroux took too long to make up his mind. By the time Catroux had decided to join De Gaulle, Vichy had replaced him with Admiral Jean Decoux, who last week handed the colony over to Japan (see p. 27). General Catroux hurried to London, tore three of the five stars from his sleeve and reported to De Gaulle...
Prophecy. A few hours after President Roosevelt confirmed his Iceland story, Burt Wheeler said: "It won't be long before we will be occupying Dakar, the Azores and the Cape Verde Islands." The prophecy was quickly denied by Dr. Joāo Antonio de Bianchi, Portuguese Minister to the U. S. "Whoever tries to take our islands," said Dr. de Bianchi, "will get his fingers scalded...
...last phrase was Rooseveltian in the first degree. It might technically include Dakar, Cape Verde Islands or the Azores, although the President had told his visitors the night before that such was not the case. Looking ahead, some speculative analysts thought there might be a time when some port in Eire would also be "a strategic outpost," would also be occupied by the U.S. Navy as a U.S. base...