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...West African coast. Dakar in the hands of the London-Washington Axis would facilitate defense of Britain's embattled maritime lifeline around Africa. Nazi agents were reported swarming in French Morocco. And the Nazis were quietly but speedily building railroad links across northwest Africa which will connect Oran, on the Mediterranean, with Dakar...
Escorted by the Vichy destroyer Simoun, four French freighters nosed out from Casablanca, French Morocco, into the Atlantic last week, making via the Strait of Gibraltar for Oran, French Algeria. "Stop and submit to search," signaled the British patrol in the Strait, but the Vichy ships ploughed...
...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 Oran the Royal Navy's only remaining stronghold in the West was Gibraltar, and even the Rock was surrounded by potential enmity-an Axis-controlled Spain to the north, Italian guns just across the Straits at Ceuta, the remains of the still equivocal French Fleet in Toulon. The Western Fleet spent most of the time on the alert, continually scouting for trouble. But all the time it was just waiting for a ripe time to go on the offensive. Last week the ripeness was there, and the Western Fleet harvested an audacious victory...
...East the Battle opened with counterparts of the precautions at Oran and Gibraltar. The British hastily grabbed a French battleship, four cruisers and smaller vessels in Alexandria, and set up a patrol guarding the Suez Canal...