Word: darlan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Admiral Darlan began digging in, there were some who began to wonder whether U.S. policy had really paid off. This week came news that Dakar had been opened to Allied forces. But although some French troops were fighting with the Americans, there was no record of Darlan having ordered them to do so. He had been powerless to bring the French fleet at Toulon to the side of the Allies. If he succeed in establishing himself as leader of the French, would post-war France be governed by the officers' clique and her "200 families...
Those who upheld the new U.S. policy believed that President Roosevelt meant what he said when he termed the relations with Darlan a "temporary expediency." But with the shifty Admiral considering himself more & more of a permanent fixure (see p. 43). the next move...
...French West Africa (including the port of Dakar). The three men who joined him were Kansas-bred Lieut. General Dwight Eisenhower, Commander of Allied Forces in North Africa, Irish-born Admiral Sir Andrew Browne Cunningham, Commander of Allied Naval Forces under Eisenhower, and Admiral Jean Louis Xavier Francois Darlan, newly self-proclaimed "Chief of State in French Africa...
Present. From Boisson and Darlan the British, through Admiral Cunningham, wanted: 1) permission to use Dakar as a base against Nazi U-boats in the South Atlantic; 2) use of French Fleet units at Dakar. From Darlan in particular, Eisenhower wants the status quo maintained in Morocco and Algeria so that there will be no transport interruptions or rear-guard threats to Allied forces now attacking Tunisia...
...there was no agreement on use of the fleet units at Dakar. But Allied navies were given permission to use the port. Neighboring airfields were thrown open as transit points. There was evidence that the status quo in Morocco and Algeria was stabilized. The price: recognition of Darlan as head of the French State and his new "imperial council" as the repository of French sovereignty...