Word: darlan
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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...
...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...
...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...
...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...