Word: darlan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...military overseas policy in French North Africa, the U.S. had explanations to make and judgments to justify to its British ally. A solution to the North African political and military obscurities has to be worked out, and the lines of a policy broader than the military expediency of the Darlan deal laid down. It will have to be an American solution since Americans are calling the turn in that area, and it calls for far greater thought and vision than the immediate and very practical problem of rationing U.S. food in North Africa...
...assassination of turncoat Admiral Jean François Darlan, which gave the U.S. a chance to make a clean deal in North Africa, also gave French factionalists a chance to brew a political crisis. Two remarkably candid reports to the U.S. this week suggested that all was far from quiet beneath the top layer of General Henri Honore Giraud's government...
Broadcasting for CBS from Algiers, Charles Collingwood said that Giraud's arrest of twelve alleged co-conspirators in the Darlan case was part of a new struggle for power-"not only over North Africa but over the future of France...
...shrillest voice raised was that of Jennie Lee, onetime M.P. and wife of Labor M.P. Aneurin Bevan. Wrote Leftist Lee to the New Republic: "We over here are wondering what in God's name American diplomacy is driving at. We don't like Darlan. We don't like Franco. We don't like the idea of asking decent men to die if it is only in order to make a new Europe congenial to such as those. Justly or un justly, the American State Department is being given the credit for having brought to our side...
...that he unconditionally favors the cause of the United Nations. On the contrary, by surrounding himself with such men as pro-Vichy Nogues and Boisson, he has created a definite doubt as to whether he is potentially any less dangerous to the Allied aims than the fascist-opportunist Darlan...