Word: darlan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...time of war it is necessary to think in terms of military expediency, rather than of the likes and dislikes of the people. The appointment of Admiral Darlan as Resident-General in North Africa has not satisfied the people of the Allied Nations, but it has proved of invaluable aid to the United States in its military campaign there. If the French Navy and North African Army had not abstained from organized resistance, the Allied troops might still be stalled at Algiers. As it is, we have been able to take almost all of French North Africa at a negligible...
...Admiral Darlan is a member of that class euphemistically termed "opportunists." It is true that during the period between the wars he exhibited no tendencies toward Fascism. He did, however, conceive a definite dislike for the British after the Naval Disarmament Conference in Washington in 1921, when the French Navy was limited to approximately one-third the size of the British. With the fall of France in 1940, he made a complete about-face, and became one of the outstanding collaborationists in the Vichy regime. The attack by the British on the French fleet at Oran solidified his dislike...
...impossible to depend on the loyalty of Admiral Darlan in the present situation, but he must be retained in a responsible position so long as the course of military events warrants it. Once the Allies have taken complete and absolute control of North Africa, his term of usefulness is at an end, and he must be discarded in favor of a government acceptable both to the Allies and to the people of France. The State Department disregarded the feelings of the peoples of the United Nations by maintaining relations with Vichy, but it has since become evident that...
LONDON--British anger over Allied North African negotiations with former Vichy cabinet members fiared today in the House of Commons, where Admiral Jean Francois Darlan was denounced as a "Quisling...
Deputy Prime Minister Clement R. Atlee acknowledged that Lt. Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, Allied North African Commander, was negotiating with Darlan regarding the "immediate military situation," then shut off further questions with: "It is not possible to make any further statement at this stage...