December 23, 194l           
 
Re: Attached
 
     This material (about 20 minutes reading) is divided:
 
     A. Our legal position in international Tangier, opposite Gibraltar. 
 
     B. Page summary why American Flag should be placed there with an 
 
American Minister, now a vacant post, on day determined. (Detailed 
 
document backing up this page summary available. )
 
     C. Political factors in today's North and Weest Africa.
 
     D. Leaders in North and West Africa, their opinions and importance 
 
as applied to race groups.
 
     E. Summary digests of conversations.
 
     The broad point is that offensive action should start at Tangier
 
and spread south to Dakar and east to British junction, and from the 
 
Tangier spearhead dig in with air force in depth to support the British 
 
by air at Gibraltar.
 
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     If Tangier and the Madeira Islands are the first surprise attack 
 
points, the element of surprise might be aided by:
 
      (A) A member of the Foreign Relations Committee, like Pepper, making 
 
a repeat speach saying Dakar backed by the Cape Verde Islands are the best 
 
defense of Brazil.
 
      (B) And then have Brazil and the United States give some publicity 
 
to the defense of the Western Hemisphere along the Brazilian Coast, and
 
     (C) Some small publicity about our Navy making safe the Atlantic 
 
narrows between Dakar and Brazil.