Word: darlan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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VICHY--Pierre Laval, Premier-designate in a French collaboration government, will return here tomorrow from Paris to confer with Marshal Henri Petain and Vice-Premier Admiral Francois Darlan on formation of his cabinet, which is expected to be completed by the end of the week, it was announced tonight...
...claim that diplomatic stress & strain between Vichy and the U.S. would soon be over was made this week by Vichy's wily little Vice Premier, Admiral Jean François Darlan. He said that "full agreement" was near. He implied that Vichy would guarantee the neutrality of the French Fleet and all of France's African colonies, including Madagascar, Axis-coveted strategic stronghold in the Indian Ocean. Admiral Darlan also said that the U.S. would resume food shipments to French North Africa, cut off last November when Vichy recalled her North African commander, Maxime Weygand...
Washington said nothing. But Admiral Darlan's claim that Vichy-U.S. relations were improving was backed up by positive Vichy action. It was revealed that a German submarine stopped last month at Fort-de-France, Martinique, and landed an officer with a gangrenous leg who badly needed a hospital. The U.S. Government immediately demanded that Vichy forbid the Axis the use of French Western Hemisphere ports, for any purpose whatever. Last week Vichy promised...
Some observers thought that Admiral Darlan had announced the agreement to give Germany an excuse to apply pressure to prevent it. Others felt that Vichy's hand was being forced by France's internal unrest. In either case, Vichy was nearing a showdown...
Navy Commandant Jules Fontaine, chief of Admiral Darlan's secretariat, happened to be in Paris. From the roof of a five-story apartment building in nearby Auteuil, Commandant Fontaine saw a sight he had never thought to seethe night sky reddened by a score of great fires in the Renault plant. Scuttling back to Vichy the next day, he described the roar and crackle of flames, the screams of people trapped in the debris, and said that the ruins were still smoking when he left. The raiders sent some 200 planes in all, Commandant Fontaine estimated, and they dropped...