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The Minister in Egypt ( Kirk ) to the Secretary of State

enter of a great battle and no longer offers the relative security necessary for military preparations on a vast scale and of long duration. Consequently central French Africa may be envisaged as a base for the deployment of American forces. British Nigeria, the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, Eritrea, Delhi and the block of Free French territories including Chad, Cameroun, Gabon and Oubangui now constitute the normal zone for points of departure of vast inter-Allied operations in Africa, operations of which American power could form the principal constituent. The Belgian Congo, Kenya, Uganda and Tangan…