Word: darlan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What made it serious was that Admiral Darlan was on his way to a conference which might affect the whole future of France-a meeting with Adolf Hitler. A corry way to spend Christmas, but an urgent cause; it was awful to be lost...
...last he got bearings on Beauvais, and found the village. He waited while the Admiral went in to talk with the Conqueror. When Jean Darlan came out he was neither particularly elated nor particularly depressed. The chauffeur knew only what was common talk: the Admiral had presented (in writing, not verbally, as Pierre Laval had negotiated) a new plan of Marshal Petain for "limited cooperation,'' whatever that might...
...chauffeur drove Admiral Darlan down past Paris and Orleans, past Nevers and the country of the milk-white cows, across the demarcation line at Moulins and up the stony Allier to Vichy. A few days later he learned that he would have to drive the Admiral to Paris and its secret environs probably many more times. The Admiral had been named official negotiator with the Germans. But strangely ten days, twelve days, a fortnight passed; and the Admiral was not called to the occupied zone. The Germans were slow about their answer...
...would use. France still had two armies on the continent: 100,000 in unoccupied France, which could at least be a nuisance; 2,000,000 prisoners in occupied France and Germany, whose cost of living the French were bearing. France still had a Navy, which was headed by Admiral Darlan-no lover of Britain since Oran and Dakar, but no lover of Germany either and certainly not of Italy; a man who loves only France and who could devise uses for his Fleet which would not be convenient to the Axis. France still had an economy. Last week Finance Minister...
These two were among the bitterest opponents of Laval in the Pétain Cabinet. Other non-politicians whom the old Marshal came to trust were War Minister General Charles Huntziger, Navy Minister Admiral Jean Darlan, Secretary of State for the Presidency of the Council Paul Baudouin, whom Laval ousted as Foreign Minister to take over the job himself. In this group, and in the person of General Maxime Weygand in Africa, centred the opposition to "collaboration" of a kind that would mean utter capitulation. Their strongest cards were the remainder of the French Navy and Weygand's Army...