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The Consul General at Dakar ( Ferguson ) to Jerome R. Lavallee of the Office of African Affairs

cial sources. They can be shown the geographic absurdity of distant Dakar being responsible for an area where two full fledged American Consulates General are immediately across the borders. Tactically, it might be better to ask the French to permit Lagos rather than Accra to be responsible for French Togo. The more logical solution would be to open a Consulate in either Lomé or Abidjan. This would admittedly cost money but if French Togo is of sufficient importance to the Department to require full political reporting, the Department simply will have to pay for it. Sooner or later the growing…