Word: darlan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Setting the precedent for this policy was the American retention of Admiral Jean Darlan as chief of French Africa. Analyzing this policy in Africa, Irwin Shaw has written "The Assassin," denouncing not only the collaboration with Darlan but the sidestepping of recognition of the underground forces...
Beyond a forceful presentation of his political views, Shaw has written a first-rate play. Not only is it an excellent, if colored, version of the intrigue behind the assassination of Darlan, but Shaw has used the best features of melodrama without its stagnant sentimentality and typed characterization...
...President had recalled him for another tough job. He was sent as Ambassador to Vichy. He got along well with the aging Petain,* and acquired great personal contempt for another admiral-Darlan-to whom he referred privately as "Popeye the Sailor...
...Senate hastily confirmed Secretary of State Edward R. Stettinius' team, and went home. But New Deal Congressmen still had reservations about three, in particular, of the six appointees: William L. Clayton, whom they consider a "cartelist"; Brigadier General Julius C. Holmes, whom they partly blame for the Darlan policy in 1942; veteran Diplomat James Dunn, whom they regard as the villain of the U.S. appeasement policy toward Franco...
...under him. It did not desert him (though it called to its aid some white-hot Tennessee cuss words) when Pearl Harbor caught him politely conferring with two grinning Japanese diplomats. It kept him at least outwardly calm when New Deal left-wingers shrilly accused him of appeasing Petain, Darlan, Franco and Badoglio...