Word: darlan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Anxiety & Peace. One man who recognized the anxiety, and seemed to discover its cause, was Pundit Walter Lippmann. A few hours before a bullet ended Admiral Darlan's baffling career, he wrote: "... We have been put to a very severe moral test in North Africa, and ... we are not meeting that test in a way which satisfies our consciences and keeps our spirits whole...
...actions which are the cause of this anxiety-not that we maintained relations with Vichy, not that we used those relations to do espionage and to conspire, and not that we dealt with Admiral Darlan. ... It is the way so many, and some in high places, are talking about these things that does such grave injury to our course, and to our self-respect, and to our confidence in the future...
...rose to the top of a soiled political heap. One of them was Pierre Laval, who rose to the honor of a meeting with Hitler to which the tragicomic Benito Mussolini was not invited. If Hitler wins, Pierre Laval may yet be a successful man, Jean François Darlan's deal with General Eisenhower might have profited him eventually, but his award was an assassin's bullet...
...afternoon sun was streaking the white porticoes of the Palais d'Ete in Algiers. It was 3:30 p.m. on Christmas Eve. Before the pretentious entrance an official car drew up. Out of it stepped Admiral Jean François Darlan, High Commissioner for French North and West Africa, followed by his orderly. Admiral Darlan mounted the steps of the palace and disappeared inside. He was walking to his death...
...small, stocky form of Admiral Darlan was lifted from the bloody floor. Outside his car still waited. He was carried into it, driven to a hospital. But it was too late. When he was taken from his car, Jean Francois Darlan, the turncoat collaborationist, was dead...