Word: darlan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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VICHY-Armed with a threat to send the formidable fleet to Africa beyond Germany's reach Admiral Francois Darlan arrived in Paris to seek a compromise on the Nazi-supported demands which would install Pierre Laval as virtual dictator of France...
...French Navy Minister and Chief Under the proposed compromise Petain would surrender to Darlan his direct control of the government, remaining only as titular chief of state, and Laval would be brought back into the Vichy regime in a secondary role...
Today's conference in Paris among Admiral Francois Darlan, special emissary of Marshal Henri Philippe Petain, the Pro-German Laval and Hitler's personal envoy, Otto Abetz, was said to have "practically ended" the 50-day old crisis in French-German relations...
Beaten and trouble-beset France appeared to be heading toward a government dominated by four men--Laval, Admiral Darlan, Paul Baudouin, and General Charles Hunziger--with the aged Petain retaining full authority as Chief of State...
...sign was the appearance of massed parachute troops in The Netherlands and of more long-range guns on France's north ern coast, presaging an end-the-war attack on Britain, which the Marshal believes probably will succeed. Another sign was the increasing influence of Admiral Jean Darlan, who has had no love for the British since Oran. Admiral Darlan may soon be named second in command to Marshal Petain and his successor if the Marshal dies. Last week Ambassador Leahy had a talk with him about the French Fleet...