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| Title: | Lend-Lease and the Opening of French North and West Africa to Private Trade |
| Author: | Dougherty, James J. |
| Year: | 1975 |
| Periodical: | Cahiers d'études africaines |
| Volume: | 15 |
| Issue: | 59 |
| Pages: | 481-500 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic terms: | French West Africa Northern Africa United States |
| Subjects: | international trade colonialism Economics and Trade international relations Development and Technology |
| External link: | https://doi.org/10.3406/cea.1975.2581 |
| Abstract: | This article is derived from a manuscript that deals with the entire American economic assistance program to France and French Northwest Africa from December 1940 until the lend-lease settlement in May 1946. As the lend-lease programs were executed through government agencies this procedure bypassed American import and export houses, freight forwarders, established channels of foreign trade financing, and American distribution services abroad. The French, stuggling tenaciously to prevent the loss of economic supremacy in the most lucrative part of their empire, bitterly opposed American plans, and succeeded in preventing the resumption of commercial trade to Northwest Africa until July 1, 1945. Finally, at the end of 1945 the French agreed to a limited and conditional trade program for Continental France. At the same time American officials had succeeded in resorting to commercial channels approximately ninety percent of the American goods destined for French West Africa. The after war situation in France ultimately determined the extent of American expansion in North and West Africa. Notes, French summary. |
