Josh Lee. veteran Democratic Senator from Oklahoma, last night asserted that "now is the time" for the western democracies to seize Dakar and stop the axis powers from ing the French West African colonial area against Britain and the Western Hemisphere.
Addressing the Senate, Mr. Lee declared that "our slogan should be keep Hitler out of West Africa," and serted that Cun aimed at South America w threatens the western world."
Mr. Lee refused to state whether he thought Britain or the United States should occupy Dakar.
"Whether we should take it over or make some agreement with the British to relieve them somewhere —such as Singapore—and so release enough naval strength for them io take over Dakar, I would leave to the military authorities," Mr. Lee declared.
Sydney, May 17.
Mr. Spender, the Defence Minister has announced that the Federal Government has agreed to accept a number of war prisoners from the Middle East, of which the first batch of Italian members of the rank and file are due shortly. It is expected that later batches will include German officers and men.—Reuter, Cairo, May 17.
In the course of a broadcast appeal to Syria last night, General Catroux. Free French representative in the Middle East, revealed that 800 tons of arms and munitions drawn from French stores at Baalbeck had been sent to Baghdad.
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