Word: darlan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rome rumored that Mussolini had nipped a plot to make Ciano a Darlan. Another reported that Mussolini had dispatched elegant Crown Prince Umberto to command Italian divisions on the Russian front in order to thwart a clerical fascist peace move centering around the haggard House of Savoy...
More eloquent than any indictment of Vichy influence in North Africa was a list of prisoners released by the Giraud Government last week. They were arrested last December after Admiral Jean Francois Darlan was assassinated. The list included...
When the Americans entered the colonies, and accepted Darlan, they dealt a heavy blow to the Free French movement inside France, Mayer said. The situation was more especially complicated by the fact that Algiers, Morocco, and Tunisia are on very different planes, both politically and socially, Mayer explained. Algiers is a full department, with representatives in Paris, while Morocco and Tunisia are but protectorates...
From North Africa by way of London last week came the first news about Admiral Jean François Darlan's assassin. He was 20-year-old Bonnier de la Chapelle, a member of the French patriotic youth organization Chantiers de Jeunesse, which aided Allied landings in North Africa but became bitter when Collaborationist Darlan emerged as chief of what many Frenchmen considered a Fascist North African regime. De la Chapelle had no connection with the Comte de Paris and his Monarchist organization. Instead, the Monarchists may have hoped to get power through Darlan...
...ever impugned Giraud's honor, nor had reason to doubt his military valor and his love of France. But when he became High Commissioner of North Africa, succeeding the assassinated Admiral Jean Darlan, the world knew very little else about...