Word: darlan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...five days men of the democracies wondered. The U.S. Government was doing business, if not with Hitler, with one of Hitler's stooges, the opportunist, the Nazi collaborationist, Admiral Jean François Darlan. The invasion of North Africa was the first great political-military venture of the U.S. in World War II. Its tone would set the tone for the others to come. How could the U.S. Government, opponent of Fascism, exponent of the Atlantic Charter, explain this? Was not freedom to come in the wake of the Americans? If Norway were invaded, would the U.S. thenceforth move...
...came the answers: the word "accepted" clearly meant that General Eisenhower had wisely improvised a solution on the ground which had stopped the fighting short of unnecessary bloodshed. The President went on to describe the arrangement with Admiral Darlan as "temporary," and he used the word "temporary" five times. No permanent alliance arrangement would be made with Darlan. The French Govern ment is to be re-established by the French people themselves "after they have been set free." He had asked, in North Africa, the abrogation of all laws based on Nazi ideology, and the liberation of all persons...
...patiently waiting for the day when we get the news that Darlan has been shot or hanged by French patriots," said Andre Morize, professor of French literature, in an interview over the Crimson Network last night...
...Darlan was therefore an essential key in the quick conquest of North Africa since he could control both the people and the army. The use of Darlas was therefore a brilliant coup on the part of General Eisenhower, whose conduct of the campaign received many compliments in Morize's talk...
...That Darlan was at the same time making use of his powers to assure his own future position in North Africa was beyond question. Needed by the Americans, able to quell Vichy resistance in Africa or unleash civil strife which would tie Eisenhower's troops down to far-flung police work, the shrewd Admiral was proving a serious and unexpected annoyance...