Word: darlan
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...Darlan: "Definitely...
...Darlan: "I, for the present time, have no statement to make on the subject, but I eagerly wish that all Frenchmen who wish to fight the Axis will do it in close union...
...Eagerly Wish." To A.P.'s Correspondent Wes Gallagher, Darlan issued a supplementary statement. Gallagher had put his questions in writing...
...Personal Ambition." Admiral Darlan said that he was lightening Vichy restrictions on Jews in French Africa and freeing men imprisoned "because of sympathy to the Allies" (a phrase which did not necessarily cover the thousands who were imprisoned in North Africa because they fought for Loyalist Spain). But the statement that most interested the world concerned Admiral Darlan himself. Said...
Pledge and Promise. Up to this week, President Roosevelt had not amended what he said Nov. 17: "I thoroughly understand and approve the feeling in the U.S. and Great Britain and among all the other United Nations that . . . no permanent arrangement should be made with Admiral Darlan . . . The present temporary arrangement in North Africa is only a temporary expedient, justified solely by the stress of battle...