Word: darlan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nearly everybody else had already had his say on Admiral Jean François Darlan, when last week the Admiral decided to have a say for himself. He took great pains to repair his reputation. At the exotic Palais d'Eté in Algiers he received correspondents individually and en masse. The Admiral was wearing sharkskin civvies with a white shirt, a brown polka-dot tie and black shoes. His grey-green eyes peered brightly through his horn-rimmed spectacles. Tiny veins threaded his florid cheeks. His grey hair was trimmed close. He sat behind a glass-topped work...
...tain and I." In his new state of conviction, Admiral Darlan, granting that he had once publicly espoused collaboration with Hitler, said: "When I made that statement I was using the word 'collaboration' in the sense that Marshal Pétain used it-namely, 'economic collaboration.' Owing to the German occupation of France, no other policy was open to us. For, if we had refused such collaboration, all the workers of France would have been put out of their jobs and left to starve. Pétain and I never favored anything but economic collaboration...
...Admiral Darlan claimed no direct credit for scuttling the French Fleet at Toulon; he did not pretend in this interview that he had ever thought of handing it to the Allies before they entered North Africa. Said he: "After the Armistice the Fleet had orders to scuttle their ships before allowing them to fall into alien hands. So long as I was in command, the order stood and was renewed from time to time. The current Laval government opposed that order. Therefore it was probably the Admiral [Jean de Laborde] commanding the Fleet at Toulon who issued the order...
Could the Germans ever persuade French sailors to take any salvaged ships into combat against the Allies? Snapped Darlan: "Definitely...
...Directed key churchmen to keep in close touch with governmental leaders (U.S. dealings with France's Admiral Jean François Darlan were assailed by both U.S. and Canadian churchmen...