Word: darlan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Eagerly Wish." To A.P.'s Correspondent Wes Gallagher, Darlan issued a supplementary statement. Gallagher had put his questions in writing...
...Give the Weapons." Last fortnight the official Radio Morocco proclaimed Admiral Darlan "Chief of State in French Africa." Last week, using the more modest title of High Commissioner, he said: "The people of North Africa feel that America will liberate them from the Germans. They believe the coming of the Americans will mean a happier life for them. Our armed forces are anxious to fight against the Germans again. But they do not want to fight under conditions that prevailed in 1940. They need tanks, planes and modern equipment. It would be in the best interests of the United Nations...
...Admiral Darlan confirmed the hunch that U.S. Admiral William Daniel Leahy had a good deal to do with the African campaign. As long as a year ago, said Darlan, he and Admiral Leahy-then Ambassador to Vichy, now President Roosevelt's personal Chief of Staff-discussed U.S. intervention in Europe and its effect on the French. Admiral Darlan said that if the U.S. had then had 500,000 equipped troops available in Europe, "we could have acted differently...
...Darlan was asked how he and the Americans were getting along, now that the situation had changed. The Admiral beamed and said: "Every day I want to congratulate myself on all my relations with all United States authorities here...
...Personal Ambition." Admiral Darlan said that he was lightening Vichy restrictions on Jews in French Africa and freeing men imprisoned "because of sympathy to the Allies" (a phrase which did not necessarily cover the thousands who were imprisoned in North Africa because they fought for Loyalist Spain). But the statement that most interested the world concerned Admiral Darlan himself. Said...