Word: darlan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...argument in favor of its application in North Africa ran as follows: the U.S. had hoped to deal with General Henri Honore Giraud, but, when the time came, his name spelled little magic with civil and military leaders in North Africa. Crafty Admiral Jean Francois Darlan -either by accident or design-was on the spot: it was he who issued the cease-firing order, it was he who promised to deliver Dakar (capture of which, in the estimates of some U.S. officials, might have sacrificed 40,000 lives...
...That all these element hate and despise Darlan . . . and will never accept to serve under...
...That Admiral Darlan will be used by the State Department temporarily and only because of his possible influence on the older generals, admirals and officers...
...months British newsmen in the U.S. have simmered with distaste under such restraints. Last week, when they found it almost impossible to transmit to England any dispatch even hinting U.S. civilian distaste for the North African deal with Vichyite Admiral Jean François Darlan, they boiled over...
...Laval, no one could say which way French minds would turn. But there were trends: it was reported by one labor leader who fled from France to London, with Air General d'Astier de la Vigerie, that President Roosevelt's stock had dropped 75% in France when Darlan was appointed, that General Giraud had "disappointed us all." The hopes of Frenchmen, in his view, were still pinned on De Gaulle; while Admiral Darlan held his present post, he said, the French people would never willingly answer any call to arms...