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...completion of the Axis-built highway from Oran to Dakar...
France's Ambassador Gaston Henry-Haye promptly answered this warning with a series of denials. There were, he said, no German troops at Dakar, Casablanca, or in any French Mediterranean port. He even said there were no Axis forces in Syria, no airborne Axis troops in any French possessions of the Near East. France had no aggressive designs against Britain. But, said M. Henry-Have proudly, "the leaders of France . . . will defend French territories against any attack...
...strategy which this doctrine calls for is that the Nazis must be driven from the seas, as well as denied possession of land bases with seapower implications -e.g., Dakar, the Azores, Cape Verde Islands, etc. An obvious corollary is that when the U.S. begins to swing its military heft, the first swinging will be done by the Navy and air arms. As long as the Commander in Chief holds to his fundamental doctrine and does not go beyond it (for example, into a continental land offensive) the U.S. Army's role will be subsidiary...
...reported that a French North African column had marched south across the Sahara to N'Guigmi on the northwestern shores of great, marshy Lake Chad, base of General Charles de Gaulle's Free French forces. And to the West African port of Dakar convoys kept bringing artillery, armored cars and tanks apparently returned to Vichy by the Nazis. This week General Maxime Weygand flew to Vichy, rushed to confer with Marshal Pétain. A Vichy-De Gaullist clash for France's African Empire-even war between France and Great Britain-seemed near...
Last week London sources said that heavy French shipments including oil, rubber, lead, wool and foodstuffs have been moving from U.S. Gulf ports into Nazi hands. The goods have been shipped to Martinique, thence to Dakar or Casablanca on the West African coast, thence to North African ports, thence (running the British blockade) to Marseille. The British Government announced last week that it had obtained copies of an order by Admiral Darlan to French merchant captains to scuttle their ships rather than submit to British capture-the order including descriptions of the best German-tested scuttling methods...