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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...
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...
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...