DE GAULLE LOYALISTS SEIZE VICHY FRENCH ISLANDS OFF CANADA
Washington, D.C. • December 24, 1941 At dawn on this grim date, Christmas Eve 1941, a tiny piece of Vichy France—the Atlantic islets of Saint Pierre and Miquelon, whose 93 sq. miles/242 sq. km of windblown granite outcroppings lay just 12 miles/19 km off the Newfoundland coast adjacent to Canada—fell to the forces of Free France without a drop of…