Word: vichyfrenchmen
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Last week, six months to the day after British forces first landed at Diégo-Suarez, the stubborn Vichyfrenchmen of Madagascar signed an armistice. Governor General Armand L. Annet had not been able to offer the British much war, but at the bidding of Pierre Laval he had done the next best thing. By forcing the British to take each port in turn and to march to each inland city, then by stalling on armistice terms, Annet had kept some British land and sea forces from fighting Germans and Japanese as long as he possibly could...
...Vichyfrenchmen in Dakar looked over their shoulders at Liberia, where U.S. troops, according to Reuters last week, had built two airports. Dakar might find itself suddenly caught between two camps. Berlin studied the corners of a chessboard; either airpower had to be shifted from Russia or Rommel would continue to lose the battle of supply. Rome had reason to be afraid. If Rommel's army was destroyed, the Allied fist would be pointed from North Africa at Italy's soft underside...
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