Word: darlan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...swift, numbing surprise was the assassination of Admiral Jean François Darlan, the onetime French collaborator who had become America's friend, or America's tool, or perhaps America's moral Frankenstein (see p. 24). The nation heard Franklin Roosevelt's angry reaction: ". . . first-degree murder." It listened to good grey Secretary of State Cordell Hull: ". . . an odious and cowardly act." But many Americans did not know whether to be horrified or relieved, and their not knowing was a heavy burden...
...Darlan: "Definitely...
...Darlan: "I, for the present time, have no statement to make on the subject, but I eagerly wish that all Frenchmen who wish to fight the Axis will do it in close union...
...Magyars had made a bold beginning and seemed to have got away with it. Hope returned to Admiral Horthy. After all, Jean François Darlan was an Admiral...
Pledge and Promise. Up to this week, President Roosevelt had not amended what he said Nov. 17: "I thoroughly understand and approve the feeling in the U.S. and Great Britain and among all the other United Nations that . . . no permanent arrangement should be made with Admiral Darlan . . . The present temporary arrangement in North Africa is only a temporary expedient, justified solely by the stress of battle...