Word: madagascars
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Pierre Laval's actual plop into power took Mr. Hull unawares, as it did everyone else in the State Department. But the air was cleared. Now the Vichy sore spots-Dakar, Madagascar, Martinique, North Africa-were almost beyond the reach of diplomatic medication, would if necessary have to be dealt with by the sharp war instruments of the United Nations...
...sailors keeping open the United Nations' lifeline around Africa to the Red Sea and beleaguered India. Hitler might now take full control of Dakar as a base for cutting the lifeline in the South Atlantic, and the Japs (if Hitler didn't mind) might get Madagascar as a base for cutting the lifeline again in the Indian Ocean...
...Vichy were French steps for French Freedom. But the essential military role of French approved Japanese penetration of Indo China, without which the Malayan and Burmese campaigns would have been impossible; the production of French factories for the German army; the presence of Axis military missions in Martinique and Madagascar; and the use of French facilities to aid the Nazl Libyan campaign proved that Vichy has been an integral part of Germany's New Order...
...soon be over was made this week by Vichy's wily little Vice Premier, Admiral Jean François Darlan. He said that "full agreement" was near. He implied that Vichy would guarantee the neutrality of the French Fleet and all of France's African colonies, including Madagascar, Axis-coveted strategic stronghold in the Indian Ocean. Admiral Darlan also said that the U.S. would resume food shipments to French North Africa, cut off last November when Vichy recalled her North African commander, Maxime Weygand...
Word reached London that Vichy had sent two cruisers and three transports from Dakar to Madagascar. Vichy said it would fight for the island if necessary. Allied strategists wondered whether that meant a fight only to prevent the Allies from moving in first...