Operations at Dakar, it declares, were never meant to develop into naval or military action. General de Gaulle knew that the great majority of the population desired to rally to the free French cause, but there had been so much German infiltration B this succeeded in frustrating the object.
"The fact remains, however, that the population of French Africa is giving daily evidence of its patriotism in spite of all stern measures adopted by the German Government. The magnificent effort of the free French forces will not be relaxed because of the failure of Dakar.
General de Gaulle and all who have rallied round him are all the more resolved to carry out their aims to demand that part of the empire which has not yet been conquered by Germany and to free that part of France still under the yoke of the invader."
—Reuter.
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