Word: oranization
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...TIME, Sept. 30), one had put into Casablanca with engine trouble. These vessels, which were armed under the armistice clause permitting French defense of the French Empire, had brought about 3,000 more men, all of whom would be a long time forgiving the British for the Battle of Oran. The new battleship Richelieu which the British crippled last July was in drydock at Dakar, but there was nothing wrong with her 15-inch guns...
...allowed their departure, for they were supposed to be interned in Toulon for the duration of the war. It seemed just as strange that Britain should let them go by unmolested, for they were survivors of a French squadron the British had partially destroyed in the Battle of Oran Bay two months before...
...evidently told his German friends just how much of a war Spain could fight to get the spoils she covets: Gibraltar, French Morocco, Oran. Day after day, while Herr von Ribbentrop was gone, he frittered away his time, going to Brussels for a sight-seeing trip through German-occupied territory, twiddling his thumbs in Berlin. While German newspapers pointedly referred to Spain as the third member of the Axis and third power in Hitler's Europe, Don Ramón waited impatiently to hear what had passed between Joachim von Ribbentrop and his Italian friends...
...flotilla were three cruisers, Georges Leygues, Montcalm, Gloire, and three big destroyers, Le Fantasque, L'Audacieux, Le Malin. They had been anchored at Toulon until last week, along with other survivors of the Battle of Oran Bay. Under terms of the armistice between Germany and France, they had supposedly been disarmed and laid up for the duration of the war. What, then, were they doing...
From Vichy came conflicting accounts of their escape. One story said that the ships had weighed anchor secretly and slipped out of Toulon to join refugee General Charles de Gaulle in Britain. But French sailors bitterly resented the British attack at Oran, were not likely to join forces with a friend who had now become an enemy...