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...June 1941, when Arthur Tedder succeeded Sir Arthur Longmore as air boss for the Middle East, he became chief of an air domain that stretches now from Malta to the Persian Gulf and extends south to Madagascar...
...Vichy's War Secretary, Lieut. General Eugene Bridoux, referred bitterly to the British conquest of Madagascar (see p.21) and said: "Tomorrow new assaults may be conducted against certain of our territories. These assaults, if they should occur, must find us strong and in a position to fight...
...Madagascar's last important port, Tulear, surrendered to British naval forces. The island's main railway was occupied by South African troops. Vichyfrench officers and their dark Malagasy troops laid down their arms, happy at the prospect of the continued pensions promised by the British. Only in isolated southern sections were there still Vichy adherents under arms. These sections were Britain's for the taking...
Three weeks after opening the second Madagascar campaign (TIME, Sept. 21), Britain was in possession of a key island that controls the southern gateway to India and the Middle East, a source of graphite, rice and beef, a base where, had it fallen to the Axis, the Luftwaffe and Japanese air force might have...
That reality, no doubt, was clear to swarthy, scheming Pierre Laval when, on the day new Madagascar attacks were launched, he conferred first with German Consul General Krug von Nidda, then with General Alphonse Juin, who succeeded General Weygand as Commander in Chief in French North Africa. Asked if the Madagascar attack increased the possibility of United Nations' action against Dakar, Laval sputtered: "Why ask me? Why not cable Roosevelt...