Word: dakar
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...crucified later because there is a jeopardy that a few might die an honorable death now?" The U.S., Pepper stormed, should get tough, "occupy the points of vantage from which these monsters are preparing to strike at us ... Greenland, Iceland, the Azores, the Cape Verde Islands, the Canary Islands, Dakar. . . ." He saw Japan as "ready to assassinate us," suggested that U.S. aviators be permitted to fight with the Chinese Army. ". . . At the controls of some first-class American bombing planes, 50 of them . . . can make a shambles out of Tokyo." Even sympathetic colleagues were abashed at his belligerency. Unsympathetic colleagues...
...generous efforts of America, which we appreciate at their full value; but we do not have the right to forget that in the present circumstances our European duty is a duty to ourselves also. . . ." Last week Vichy also issued a warning against a U.S. attempt to seize Dakar on the West African coast. Dakar in the hands of the London-Washington Axis would facilitate defense of Britain's embattled maritime lifeline around Africa. Nazi agents were reported swarming in French Morocco. And the Nazis were quietly but speedily building railroad links across northwest Africa which will connect Oran...
Trinidad is the southern spearhead, where defense is most urgent because it lies athwart the most practicable route for an enemy move from Dakar in western Africa, thence to some landing point on the eastern hump of South America, and northward to the Canal Zone, Central America, the U.S. itself. Geographically, Trinidad is also in a position to protect-or to dominate-the whole uncertain reach of northern South America. So far it is not a protection but only a position...
Theoretically outmoded U.S. planes (example: the Douglas B-18A bomber) now make ten-and twelve-hour flights, hop non-stop from Miami or Texas to the Zone. Pan American Clippers do it in six and a half hours. Existing bombers could, if pushed to the extreme, fly from French Dakar to the Canal Zone. Air power has thus completely revised all theories of the defense of the Canal. The only military solution: defensive air and naval power, based as far as possible from the Canal itself, as near as possible to the starting points of enemy attack...
...garrison northwest Africa was serious indeed to the British. If such a campaign succeeded, the British would practically have to abandon the western Mediterranean and Germany would have another base for the Battle of the Atlantic, as well as a steppingstone on the route to South America via Dakar...