Word: darlan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Vichy's wily, grey little Vice Premier Admiral Jean François Darlan announced that France "will act to hasten the hour of peace." Since he also was openly of the opinion that Britain could not win the war, this was tantamount to saying that France would now openly help the Axis end the war by winning it. That Britain was well aware of her former ally's hostile intentions was evident...
...Vichy's order. Rather than risk an ugly incident, the British last November gave up their watch outside the harbor, left the patrol to two U.S. destroyers. Whether Admiral King sends a stronger task force to Fort de France is strictly up to Vichy's Admiral Darlan, Hitler, and the patience of Franklin Roosevelt...
France's sly little Vice Premier Admiral Jean François Darlan felt it necessary to assure the French people last week that the Vichy-Nazi collaboration was in no way dishonorable. Making his first radio address to the nation, he unwittingly pictured himself as a high admirer of Adolf Hitler and an accomplished demagogue...
...choosing the road she is taking. . . . On the result of the negotiations [with Germany] directly depends the future of France. It is necessary for her to choose between life and death. The Marshal and the Government have chosen life." When it was over it seemed apparent that Admiral Darlan had put more weight on the word "sovereignty" than it could possibly bear. If it was his intention to conceal France's rapid motion toward de facto Axis partnership and full-fledged fascism, the mounting evidence made it impossible. For it remained clear last week that Germany, far from being...
...ports into Nazi hands. The goods have been shipped to Martinique, thence to Dakar or Casablanca on the West African coast, thence to North African ports, thence (running the British blockade) to Marseille. The British Government announced last week that it had obtained copies of an order by Admiral Darlan to French merchant captains to scuttle their ships rather than submit to British capture-the order including descriptions of the best German-tested scuttling methods...