World: The Beckoning Finger

For the first time in months Vichyfrench censors gave clearance to dispatches from inside Dakar.

> Reported Le Temps' correspondent: "Dakar is gay and full of life, a condition produced by the presence of so many soldiers and sailors."

> Reported the United Press: "Increases in the land garrison and arrival of heavy fleet reinforcements have swelled the white population from 15,000 to 50,000. Women and children are being evacuated. Governor Pierre Boisson ordered them to leave, remembering how civilians clogged the roads during the German invasion of France. A serious housing shortage has...

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