Word: darlan
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...afternoon sun was streaking the white porticoes of the Palais d'Ete in Algiers. It was 3:30 p.m. on Christmas Eve. Before the pretentious entrance an official car drew up. Out of it stepped Admiral Jean François Darlan, High Commissioner for French North and West Africa, followed by his orderly. Admiral Darlan mounted the steps of the palace and disappeared inside. He was walking to his death...
...small, stocky form of Admiral Darlan was lifted from the bloody floor. Outside his car still waited. He was carried into it, driven to a hospital. But it was too late. When he was taken from his car, Jean Francois Darlan, the turncoat collaborationist, was dead...
...brief career at the side of the anti-Axis powers he had wrought good and evil. Dakar had fallen to the Allies without a shot. The progress of the U.S. campaign had been sped. But Darlan's assumption of power had also unleashed a storm of anger and criticism among Allied peoples, widening dangerously the already existing split between the supporters of Vichy and De Gaulle. It had involved the U.S. in a tangled skein of international politics which was becoming more & more involved. Termed by President Roosevelt a "temporary expediency," the Darlan regime was gaining a firmer foothold...
...assassin's bullet had brought the opportunity for a new beginning. In death Admiral Darlan opened the way for French unity, which he had rendered impossible as long as he had a voice in French affairs...
Unity at Last. There was one man on whom the Fighting French, the British and the U.S. could agree. General Henri Honore Giraud, the old escapist, had been picked for this role before the U.S. forces landed, but when he reached North Africa Darlan was there ahead of him and he had voluntarily yielded to Darlan. Now it was a question whether those North African leaders who had remained loyal to Darlan and Vichy would accept Giraud as their chief...