Word: darlan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Vichy's catlike Vice Premier Admiral Jean François Darlan angrily considered a letter from 62-year-old General Count Benoît Léon de Fornel de la Laurencie. A brave fighter in France's brief World War II defense, the General was among the few French commanders at Dunkirk. There he bucked up his exhausted troops by holding a review. Said Gringoire: "When they passed in front of their chief, they turned their hardened, sunburned faces toward him, in an immense téte-à-téte. All of their expressions were...
After the Armistice, Marshal Pétain appointed General de Fornel delegate to the German Army of Occupation, but he did not fancy the job and last winter was removed. To Admiral Darlan he wrote that he had "no confidence in the generosity of our conquerors. ... I not only hope for but expect a British victory. Moreover I share this opinion with a great majority of my fellow citizens, whether in the free zone or the occupied zone...
Last week Admiral Darlan threw General de Fornel de la Laurencie in jail...
...Dissension between Admiral Darlan and Vichy's North African High Commander, General Maxime Weygand, has often been rumored (TIME, Aug. 25). Into General Weygand's sphere last week Vichy moved three officers whose fealty to Vichy seemed unquestioned. Fair-faced, jolly General Alphonse Pierre Juin, 55, became Commander of Vichy's Moroccan forces. Just a month ago the Nazis saw fit to release General Juin from a German prison camp. Fellow officers have often noted his totalitarian sympathies. Suave, dark General Jean Josèphe Marie Gabriel de Lattre de Tassigny became commander of Vichy...
...Admiral Darlan has granted the Germans the use of air bases in the Levant. Please at once advise the Wiesbaden Commission concerning the reaction to such measures...