Word: darlan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...super dime novel complete with spies and a beautiful adventuress, refugee-Author Heym (now with the psychological warfare division of the Army) pictures the power-poker played by Axis and Allies in North Africa. The most interesting character is Darlan-like Monaitre, who offers his troops to the highest bidder. Although the elements are similar, the effect is less striking than the author's Hostages...
Oddly enough, Welles was impressed with the "courage" and "determination" of Neville Chamberlain. Welles also has good words for Brazil's President Getulio Vargas, and for the State Department's policies toward Vichy and the late Admiral Darlan...
...Ernie himself was a little slow to recognize the nature of the new assignment. At first he tried to be a more or less conventional war correspondent, covering the news as others did. The change began one day in Africa when the press corps was invited to meet Admiral Darlan. Scripps-Howard cabled him to be sure to attend. He was hurrying across an airfield to the interview when a swarm of Stukas swooped down, began splattering bullets around him. He dived into a ditch just behind a G.I. When the strafing was over he tapped his companion...
Pyle sat through the interview in a daze, went back to his tent and brooded for hours. Finally he cabled his New York office that he could not write the Darlan story. Instead he wrote about the stranger who had died in the ditch beside him. For days he talked of giving up and going home. But when the shock wore off, he knew for sure that his job was not with the generals and their strategems but with the little onetime drugstore cowboys, clerks and mechanics who had no one else to tell their stories...
...admirable anti-Darlan, anti-Vichy sentiments of "Passage to Marseille" are somewhat obscured by its overstyled presentation. Still, its statements even now are undoubtedly more explicit than most Holywood war pictures...