Word: darlan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Vichyfrench at Dakar, receiving Admiral Jean Francois Darlan (see p. 27), still expected Allied invasion...
Anglophobe Admiral Françcois Jean Darlan, chief of Vichy's armed forces, made a flying tour of French African bases. Over the Dakar radio he warned the populace that "new dangers hang over...
...Neither Darlan nor the dispatches mentioned two closely related reasons...
...hard-driving Chancellor (1933) to the double-chinned, snappish war lord (1941). Bombast and ostentatious health fade from Mussolini's naked dome after the debacle in Greece. From the present's point of view, Laval looks untrustworthy from the start. Irony stalks beside Winston Churchill and Admiral Darlan as they review French sailors together. The tread of marching armies forecasts the kind of fight they will make later on-the Germans, thudding, dour, professional; the Russians, massive, resolute, rough; the Italians, light, out-of-step, a little too gay, a little silly...
...only member widely familiar in the U.S. is Fernand de Brinon, recently Vichy's agent in Paris). Laval himself is Chief of Government, holds the portfolios of Foreign Affairs, Interior and Information. Former Vice Premier Admiral Darlan has been given command of all Vichy's armed forces and made an Admiral of the Fleet for life...