Word: darlan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Commander of the French North African Army, General Maxime Weygand, for conferences with Marshal Henri Philippe Petain and other chiefs of state. Behind closed doors spruce little General Weygand collided with Vichy's chief contact man with the Nazis, sly little Vice Premier Admiral Jean François Darlan. Their collision was heard outside the closed doors and reverberated in diplomatic circles for days...
...reported that General Weygand had not only flatly refused certain demands of Admiral Darlan but had countered with sharp demands of his own. At week's end, when General Weygand flew back to Algeria, it was said that he had won his way, and had been given complete direction of Vichy's colonial "foreign policy." General Weygand's chief demands supposedly were that...
...Darlan-Weygand collision at least gave weight to the frequently stated theory that Vichy's course is determined less by aging Marshal Pétain than by his more active subordinates...
Vice Premier Darlan's latest statement might have come from the clamorous mouth of Adolf Hitler himself. Lashing at British policy ever since the Versailles Treaty, Admiral Darlan worked heatedly up to World War II in which, he declared, Britain had seized 792,000 tons of French shipping valued at 12,000,000,000 francs...
France's deeds continued to parallel Darlan's words. While French Ambassador to the U.S. Gaston Henry-Haye was solemnly assuring the U.S. Government that France would not go beyond her Armistice commitments to the Nazis, the Nazis were permitting Vichy to build an air force for defense of the French Empire. (Under the Armistice terms, all air equipment in the Unoccupied Zone was to be dismantled.) One grey rainy day old Marshal Pétain went to Aulnat airfield, near Clermont-Ferrand (France's Burbank-Akitin...