Word: darlan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Toward Reform. The figure who embodied and heightened the shame of North Africa was Admiral Jean François Darlan. History will decide whether Admiral Darlan deserved all that was said of him: that, because he had once sold out to the Axis, he was forever unfit for the company of free men. For the Allies, the important fact was that most free men so believed...
...coincidence that placed Admiral Darlan in Algiers on the day of the invasion also threw him into the Allied camp. Six weeks later, when a young Frenchman shot him down, he was inextricably involved in the Allies' North African position. Not one move had been made to loosen his hold, or to loosen the ties that bound the U.S. Government...
...obscured, almost forgotten figure during this period was General Giraud. He commanded the French troops in North Africa-but he did so under the resented direction and authority of Darlan. He loomed as the likeliest alternative to Darlan-but Darlan admitted no alternative while he lived. People in the U.S. and Great Britain had about decided to write off Henri Giraud...
Among the many things that Darlan's death changed, one was the world standing of General Giraud. It was a slow and curious transition, and it was not all brought about by Giraud himself. Partly because of his own predilections and tendencies toward authoritarian ways, more because of the still cloudy policy of the U.S., the stench of Darlan along with his mantle seemed to shift to Giraud. Did he, Giraud, not harbor and use the same Vichyites whom Darlan had placed or kept in power? So, for weeks, it seemed to the world...
Ambassador Hayes's revelation that we are provisioning Spain, on top of I'affaire Darlan, prompts me to suggest that we adopt as our emblem the Chamberlain umbrella...