From June 18, 1940, in his appeal to the French to continue the resistance against Nazi Germany, Charles de Gaulle said that France is not alone, and that it has in particular "a vast Empire behind it". But the General, former undersecretary of state for war of the last independent government of the Third Republic, found it very difficult to rally the Empire to the cause of free France. After much hesitation, Noguès, commander-in-chief of the theater of operations in North Africa since 1939, made the choice of submission to Vichy, refusing the position of number one of the French National Committee that de Gaulle proposed to him.
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Governor of French West Africa (AOF) and French Equatorial Africa (AEF), Boisson is also, for the misfortune of free France, a zealous vichyst, who will push back with guns, on September 25, 1940, a Gaullist naval expedition in front of Dakar and which will later apply the statute of the Jews of October 1940 in AOF, the desired law of persecution
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