Dakar Rivalry Hazards Loom Over West African Coast
Freetown residents fear a German-Vichy push from Dakar threatening the Allied lifeline along the coast. The fortress-like Dakar, with Goree and Bathurst defenses, is portrayed as a near Gibraltar, with Axis propaganda and recent Vichy air losses fueling tensions and speculation on American troop arrival.
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Sierra Leone
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Bathurst
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Accra
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Guile
de Gaulle
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Maryland
France
North Africa
Kar
Britain
America
Dust Bowl Threat Seen in Argentina
United Press reports from Buenos Aires that Ernest E. Maes of the U S Department of Agriculture warns the pampas could suffer a Dust Bowl like Oklahoma and Kansas due to overgrazing by Argentine cattlemen and wartime price drives. Dust storms already occur and wind erosion could worsen without conservation action.
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United Press
Buenos Aires
Ernest E. Maes
U. S. Department of Agriculture Soil Conservation Service
Pampas
Maes
Oklahoma Panhandle
Kansas
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