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...said Franklin Roosevelt last week in an appeal to the French people. Yet obviously he believed it, Washington believed it. Petain's announcement of new French collaboration with Germany (see p. 27) meant that Hitler's legions would soon be at Dakar, eyeing the Western Hemisphere across the narrowest part of the Atlantic...
...that could be expected of a France which demanded respect for its integrity. ..." If the U.S. no longer felt called upon to respect the integrity of France, there were steps that could be taken. Interventionist Senator Pepper emerged from the White House and declared that the U.S. should seize Dakar and the French possessions in the Caribbean and South America as a measure of hemispheric defense. These, he said, were his own views...
Like Senator Pepper, Military Pundit George Fielding Eliot declared: "We have ample forces available for [the seizure of Dakar] . . . and the scale of resistance to be expected now is far less than it will be if we wait until the Germans are there in force. . . . But we must act now, while there is time. Tomorrow is certainly going to be too late. . . ." If the President even thought of taking Dakar with the weak U.S. Atlantic Fleet (see p. 22) he gave no sign of it. At his first press conference in two weeks, showing no signs of his illness except...
...seemed beyond question last week that a considerable force of Nazis was already in Dakar on the West African coast, closest port in either Europe or Africa to the Americas...
...Battle of the Atlantic first made Freetown improtant-as an assembly point and stopover for north and southbound supply ships. With the necessity of concentrating on convoys in the North Atlantic, the Royal Navy was unable to give heavy protection to ships very far south of Dakar. Convoys gathered at Freetown, 500 miles to the southeast...