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...Abroad the Germans were threatening U.S. and British command of the Atlantic: Dakar was already almost in Nazi grasp; one of Britain's proudest ships had gone down before a new German dreadnought off Greenland and the proudest ship of the German Navy had been sunk by the British off Brest (see p. 21); Germany's top admiral and the Japanese were talking of war if the U.S. gave further naval help to Britain (see p. 27). Unless the U.S. once again took a firm stand for freedom of the seas (see p. 14), the U.S. might...
...probable minimum, the Army would have to support the Navy with an armored division, a motorized infantry division, land planes to put on the five airports near Dakar. Enormous problems of transocean supply (when the U.S. and Britain are already short of sea transport) would immediately develop. The Navy remembers what happened to General Charles de Gaulle and the British when they approached Dakar with an insufficient force. And Dakar's defenses-even without probable German reinforcements-are stronger today than they were last fall...
...closer to our shores on the Atlantic than Hawaii is on the other side." He might have added that the Azores lie at a pivotal position in the Eastern Atlantic, whence the U.S. Navy could control the approaches to the Mediterranean, do much to neutralize any Nazis at Dakar...
This speech is in intent a declaration of war, and no defensive war at that. If the American people were determined that the Azores, the Cape Verde Islands, Dakar, etc., are vital to the defense of our shores, the President would not have needed to stress the point so strongly. The fact is that at least a large minority of Americans do not agree, and will keep on saying so with all the force they command. They do not doubt our ability to survive; they have felt all along that aid to England is a sensible policy dictated...
...last week the Freetown base suddenly became more important than ever. With Dakar and Casablanca reportedly about to be turned over to the Nazis, it was Britain's-and might be the Americas'-most strategic base on the east shore of the South Atlantic. If raiding action were to come from Dakar and Casablanca, counteraction would have to come from Freetown...