Word: madagascar
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...rendezvous in the Indian Ocean somewhere off Madagascar went Germany's thin-lipped Vice Admiral Karl Doenitz and Japan's pudgy Admiral Osami Nagano. What the honorable Doenitz said to the honorable Nagano was not revealed by the Swedish paper which reported the meeting last week. But-if they met-a good guess was that they discussed the highly effective German submarine campaign-a defensive campaign which cannot win the war for Hitler, but can indefinitely delay an Allied victory...
...months' experience of the British in Madagascar, where resistance ended only last week (see p. 28), was warning that resistance might be prolonged. Lieut. General Dwight David Eisenhower took more than enough men (Vichy said 140,000) to fight it out by land and air if need...
Last week, six months to the day after British forces first landed at Diégo-Suarez, the stubborn Vichyfrenchmen of Madagascar signed an armistice. Governor General Armand L. Annet had not been able to offer the British much war, but at the bidding of Pierre Laval he had done the next best thing. By forcing the British to take each port in turn and to march to each inland city, then by stalling on armistice terms, Annet had kept some British land and sea forces from fighting Germans and Japanese as long as he possibly could...
...police of Tananarive on Vichy's Madagascar were at first puzzled, then alarmed. All over town Fighting French signs were appearing, scrawled by invisible hands at night. Day after day the police would erase DEATH TO THE TRAITORS OF VICHY, ANNET FOR THE GALLOWS and many another slogan. One morning they found that nearly all the red lights of the traffic signals had been decorated with the Cross of Lorraine. They tried to trace the origin of a stenciled angel with the caption ANGEL OVER MADAGASCAR. They collected by the thousands leaflets with the emblem and the added injunction...
Secret Weapon. In Madagascar, two South African soldiers captured three Vichyfrench ones by popping out of hiding, chorusing...