Word: darlan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Department that Marshal Pétain's radio plea for closer Franco-Nazi cooperation (TIME, Aug. 25) might be just another effort to appease Hitler with promises instead of warships and bases. There was a bigger, simpler reason: the French seemed to be turning ever more violently against Darlan's Nazi-philes. Such a time was no time for the U.S. to seize a French island...
...took with him a portfolio of cartoons making fun of Pétain and Darlan as Nazi satellites (see cut). It was a shame, said Henry-Haye, "that a man with the Marshal's record should be subjected to this ridicule." Vichy's Ambassador does not send such cartoons home to France. He knows that most Frenchmen look on the U.S. as the savior of democracy, says he is afraid it would break their spirit if they learned how the U.S. feels about Vichy...
...Lift up your heads, gallant Frenchmen. Not all the infamies of Darlan and Laval shall stand between you and the restoraion of your birthright...
...turned over to the Nazis all enemies of the New Order they wanted. This was done with a grim parody of legality. The Germans gave the names they wanted to Vichy's Paris Ambassador Fernand de Brinon. He told the office of Vichy's Vice Premier Admiral Darlan, which told the Vichy Gestapo, who made the arrests. In so doing they were joined by members of the Nazi Gestapo (the Vichy Gestapo, either by accident or design, has let many prisoners slip through its fingers). The arrests were made in the name of the "International Convention for Prevention...
Last week Marshal Pétain raised his sly little Vice Premier Admiral Jean François Darlan to a new eminence-Minister of National Defense. Thereby Admiral Darlan apparently added to his Navy command that of Vichy's Army, whose largest. forces are in North Africa under General Maxime Weygand...