Show REYNOLDS HITS DAKAR SEIZURE WASHINGTON May 17 UP Senator Claude Pepper D. D Fla ha predicted Saturday that Germany will try to obtain Dakar In West Vest Africa either by force or by collaboration with the French and ani use it eventually e as asa asa asa a base for an attack attach against South America WASHINGTON May 17 INS INS INS- Senator Robert P. P Reynolds D. D N. N C. C newly appointed chairman of f the senate military affairs committee committee com corn said Saturday seizure of Dakar by United States military forces would lead this country into nto war against Germany He proposed however that the United States negotiate with the Vichy government for purchase of French possessions in the western hemisphere Including Martinique If the United States should end lend enda lenda a military force to occupy the French possession of Dakar in West Africa it would mean war with Germany Reynolds said But I am in favor of the United States purchasing the western hemisphere possessions of the French Trench government through application application cation of the cost of ot the possessions on the World war debt France owes us Reynolds a member of the congressional congressional con con- gressional nonintervention bloc said that if France refused to negotiate for the sale of ot Martinique In the Caribbean such action could be considered an unfriendly act and the United States would then have the right to take over |