Word: dakar
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...tons of fruit; 35,000 of sugar, 12,000 of cocoa, 5,000 of meat and 3,000 each of fish and rum. The reason why Britain let all this slip through was doubtless reluctance by Winston Churchill to risk a third bloody clash like those at Dakar and Oran, but the problem of food for France had both London and Vichy on tenterhooks...
...After failing to take Dakar, Free French forces under General de Gaulle...
...keep the gold out of Nazi hands. The Bank of France shipped the gold to Bordeaux. There, when France had fallen and Nazi-French armistice was being negotiated, the Belgians tried to reclaim it. But the Bank of France refused to give up the gold, instead shipped it to Dakar. Ambassador Theunis' theory: the Nazis already had informed the French that they would have to give the gold to Berlin...
Last week's legal action followed reports that the gold, by German demand on Vichy, was being shipped by airplane from Dakar to Marseille for delivery to the Nazis. Aim of the suit (which had the tacit support of Washington): to establish that if the Belgian gold goes to Germany, France will have to make gold from its own gold (estimated at $500,000,000) "frozen" in the U.S. by Washington decree...
...continent: 100,000 in unoccupied France, which could at least be a nuisance; 2,000,000 prisoners in occupied France and Germany, whose cost of living the French were bearing. France still had a Navy, which was headed by Admiral Darlan-no lover of Britain since Oran and Dakar, but no lover of Germany either and certainly not of Italy; a man who loves only France and who could devise uses for his Fleet which would not be convenient to the Axis. France still had an economy. Last week Finance Minister Yves Bouthillier presented a budget for the first four...