Word: madagascars
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Just off Africa, athwart the only Indian Ocean lanes now reasonably open to the United Nations, lies Vichyfrance's Madagascar. If it became a base for Axis warships, submarines and planes, it would give Japan and/or Germany complete control of the Indian Ocean crossroads. Madagascar in Axis hands would be a disaster comparable to the loss of Singapore...
After the Battle. The face of the world had a different expression after Singapore. The great lecherous eye of Japan's military power stared from its newly won profile. It ogled bejeweled India. It peeped up the rippling skirts of the Indian Ocean. It winked at little Madagascar, over by Africa's side. It was a gleaming eye, because now the key to the seraglio was in Japan's hot hand...
...could, as well, cut off China's present lifeline and any alternates which the Allies might devise. He might, if he could get bases in Madagascar from the Vichy-french, interrupt the British supply line to Suez and the Middle East...
...exiled Royal Government of Norway advanced ?50,000 last week to help keep the war-orphaned Norwegian Lutheran missions going in China, the Cameroons, South Africa. Manchuria, Madagascar. Cut off from home support by the Nazi invasion, the Norse missionaries will get their aid through the Rev. Johan Arnd Aasgaard of Minneapolis, president of the Norwegian Lutheran Church of America since 1925. Administrator Aasgaard believes this is the first time in history that a government has financed a church's foreign missions, considers it a dramatic proof that "the Allied forces are fighting for Christianity and democracy...
...strike a blow for the swastika here at home. These All Americans with their dupes and colleagues oppose further immigration on the grounds that those already here have increased unemployment. They mutter about our own racial purity and complain that this is a Jewish problem-that Palestine and Madagascar are good enough for the refuse of the Fuhrer...