Word: darlan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Allied secret diplomacy last week made its second major decision in French North Africa. The results were as politically disturbing, as morally disheartening to the United Nations cause as the first decision nine months ago. Then the U.S. had used turncoat Admiral Jean François Darlan on the ground of expediency. Now the U.S. and Britain insisted that control over the French armed forces in North Africa must go to General Henri Honoré Giraud and not to General Charles de Gaulle, on the ground that it would be militarily dangerous to risk a sudden reform in the French...
Victim of infantile paralysis since last October, redheaded Alain Darlan, 29, son of the late French Admiral, turned up at Georgia's Warm Springs Foundation Hospital-almost certainly by the kindness of Franklin Roosevelt. With him were his mother, his pretty blonde wife Annie, a French physician, and a French orderly. Flown out of the Algiers danger zone last December, Darlan arrived in the U.S. by ship three weeks...
...that De Gaulle and of the alternatives to him, a Frenchwoman in Vichy-france wrote last December. When she penned her letter to a friend in the U.S., turncoat Admiral Jean François Darlan was still alive and in U.S. favor. Since his death, many things had changed for the better. But when her smuggled letter turned up in the U.S. last week, its words still rang...
...didn't try to evade censorship," says Colling wood, "but sometimes I'd get so upset at the news that I guess my voice was affected." Collingwood got three big beats (thanks to his diligence and radio's speed) : the first news the U.S. had of Darlan's assassination, the execution of his assailant, the roundup of the twelve Frenchmen who assisted the U.S. landings...
Despite these preparations-and the boasts of their effectiveness-there was wild confusion when U.S. troops landed. To the surprise of Murphy and Eisenhower, Vichy and Pétain were firmly entrenched in high places. And Darlan was in Algiers, visiting a sick son. Eisenhower then made his famed deal with Darlan, persuaded a furious Giraud to serve under the Admiral, and calmly dismissed the "small differences of ideas" among Frenchmen which these arrangements aggravated...