AFRICAN BASES
DEMANDED BY THE NAZIS DEALINGS WITH VICHY. SOME CONFLICTING REPORTS. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) (Received This Day, Noon.) LONDON, August 4. French and German relations are again approaching a crisis as a result of German demands for bases at Dakar, Casablanca and Algiers. An unconfirmed report says the Vichy Government has rejected a German ultimatum. The Germans are also understood to have demanded a Cabinet reshuffle, involving the Ministries of War and the Interior. A neutral correspondent in Berlin says the resistance offered by Vichy in Syria is not regarded in Berlin as a sufficient proof of France’s will to co-operate with Germany, who wants a Government in which she can place “unlimited trust.”
Informed circles in London consider that pro-Nazi elements in the Vichy Government may be restrained by a fear of public outbursts. Vichy has insisted on the right to protect' French North and West African naval bases against the imperialistic designs of foreign Powers.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 August 1941, Page 6
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