Word: darlan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bore the Axis stamp and perhaps foreshadowed Axis strategy. Whether Washington's recent diplomacy -kind words to Franco from President Roosevelt, loans, trade pacts-had come utterly to naught remained to be seen. U.S. relations with Franco were as cloudy, and perhaps as expedient, as those with Admiral Darlan. But U.S. and British military men took no chances...
These were the reasons-if any did-which came nearest to justifying the deal with Admiral Jean Francois Darlan. By peaceful arrangement with Dakar's Governor General Pierre Boisson, U.S. troops last week entered that disputed port, and the Allies' African communications improved...
...some Army spokesmen seemed to be trying to sell Darlan & Co. to the U.S., people on a long-term basis,* it may have been because they expected a long fight in North Africa. Said Lieut. General Henry H. Arnold, chief of the Army Air Forces: "We are up against a cross section of the whole German aerial might." Before the campaign's end, General Arnold foresaw a struggle "which almost certainly will determine supremacy in the air over the Mediterranean, and possibly will determine aerial supremacy over Europe...
...Said the London Observer last week: "To score tactical and temporary victories by adroit maneuver can always be described as 'realism.' But these little gains may prove disastrous in the long run. . . . The 'temporary' arrangement with Admiral Darlan could be justified as a clever one, but . . . intelligence without integrity will fail in the end, and the people know it far better than do some of our politicians...
...North African campaign for months, last week none of the overlapping Washington agencies knew how to handle civilian-goods shipments to Morocco, Algeria, etc. There was a four-cornered wrangle between 1) Lend-Lease (which pays for the goods), 2) the Board of Economic Warfare (which distrusts Darlan and all his works), 3) the State Department (which in the main is willing to play along with ex-Vichy officials but is not prepared for the African job), 4) the Army & Navy (the only people on the spot in North Africa). Herbert Lehman's Office of Rehabilitation and Relief...