Word: darlan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Among others with whom Lanny is on good terms: Pierre Laval, Albert Einstein (they play Mozart sonatas for piano and violin), Winston Churchill, Harry Hopkins ("May I call you Lanny?" says Harry), OSS Chief William J. Donovan, Admiral Darlan. Lanny is also, believe it or not, friendly with Hermann Goring and Adolf Hitler...
...Willing Men. The point missed by most critics, says Langer, is that Vichy was not simply Pétain, Darlan and Laval. They got the headlines, but "at all times [were] more than counterbalanced" by other Vichyites, mostly nameless, who were loyal Frenchmen at the least, and at most, zealously pro-Ally. Example: as early as spring 1941 the Deuxième Bureau (intelligence service) secretly agreed to send military reports to the U.S. Army in Washington, right under Vichy Ambassador Henry-Haye's nose. According to U.S. diplomats at Vichy, French officialdom was 85% on the Allied side...
...Glaswegian, Brogan was educated at Glasgow, Oxford and Harvard, has since published scholarly, lively studies of three nations-The American Character, The English People, The Free State. His newest foray is a collection of 27 essays on French figures and subjects ranging from political and military (including Clemenceau, Jaures, Darlan, De Gaulle) to literary (Dumas, Proust...
Married. Alain Darlan, 32, son of Vichy's Admiral Vice Premier Darlan (assassinated in 1942), who at the invitation of President Roosevelt came to the U.S. in 1943 to get treatment for polio; and Mrs. Phyllis Kellum, 37, Warm Springs Foundation physiotherapist; both for the second time; in Warm Springs...
...coverage of Dunkirk and Dieppe was so good that Raymond Daniell, chief of the Times's London Bureau, hired him away. Daniell sent him to North Africa, where Middleton's analysis of the tangled Darlan-Giraud crisis was from the first surprisingly mature and shrewd. His up-front combat stories showed a reportorial eye, a literary...