Word: darlan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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These were vague voices of propagandist explanation. No public announcement was made as to exactly what Adolf Hitler and Admiral Darlan had agreed on. Presumably there were many details left to work out. But the consensus of rumor held that: > The line of demarcation between Occupied and Unoccupied France would be opened for the passage of goods, money, mail. > The French daily payment of 400,000,000 francs for maintaining Germany's occupying Army would be cut as much as 25%. > Some 250,000 of the 1,800,000 French war prisoners in Germany would be sent home...
Back & forth between Vichy and Paris shuttled Marshal Petain's dapper, middle-aged Vice Premier, Admiral Jean Frangois Darlan. At length Vichy announced that "certain easements" would presently take place between the Occupied and Unoccupied Zones. Hereafter Germany would charge France less for the support of the Nazi Army of Occupation, beginning with a reduction of from 400,000,000 to 300,000,000 francs a day. Generally speaking, the demarcation line would be opened for goods, cash, securities, and for people who wished to attend the sickness or burial of near relatives. Postcard correspondence would be permitted between...
This week Admiral Darlan was received by the Führer himself. And from Zurich it was reported that Adolf Hitler had bestowed on Darlan and his predecessor Pierre Laval the Kriegsverdienstkreuz, second class-a Nazi military decoration for war services rendered outside of military-action...
Conquered France today is a gigantic sounding board for the shout of rumor, the whisper of fact. Last week it reverberated to an intensified campaign for collaboration with Germany. To Paris to talk with the Germans went Marshal Petain's "heir," Admiral Jean François Darlan, who then made a quick and mysterious trip to Beauvais (near which last year he met with Adolf Hitler) before going home to report to his aged chief...
This was not too remarkable, for a few days earlier Vice Premier Admiral Darlan of France had given out a fat sheaf of statistics on steady French cargo traffic through the British blockade in the Mediterranean. While the British had sunk seven French food ships, said Admiral Darlan, they had never sunk, or even stopped, a French ship escorted by war craft. According to the Vice Premier, the Vichy merchant marine had thus far brought through the British blockade, mostly from Africa, 7,000,000 bushels of grain; 363,000 tons of wine; 180,000 tons of peanut...