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Nearly everybody else had already had his say on Admiral Jean François Darlan, when last week the Admiral decided to have a say for himself. He took great pains to repair his reputation. At the exotic Palais d'Eté in Algiers he received correspondents individually and en masse. The Admiral was wearing sharkskin civvies with a white shirt, a brown polka-dot tie and black shoes. His grey-green eyes peered brightly through his horn-rimmed spectacles. Tiny veins threaded his florid cheeks. His grey hair was trimmed close. He sat behind a glass-topped work...
...tain and I." In his new state of conviction, Admiral Darlan, granting that he had once publicly espoused collaboration with Hitler, said: "When I made that statement I was using the word 'collaboration' in the sense that Marshal Pétain used it-namely, 'economic collaboration.' Owing to the German occupation of France, no other policy was open to us. For, if we had refused such collaboration, all the workers of France would have been put out of their jobs and left to starve. Pétain and I never favored anything but economic collaboration...
...some Army spokesmen seemed to be trying to sell Darlan & Co. to the U.S., people on a long-term basis,* it may have been because they expected a long fight in North Africa. Said Lieut. General Henry H. Arnold, chief of the Army Air Forces: "We are up against a cross section of the whole German aerial might." Before the campaign's end, General Arnold foresaw a struggle "which almost certainly will determine supremacy in the air over the Mediterranean, and possibly will determine aerial supremacy over Europe...
...Said the London Observer last week: "To score tactical and temporary victories by adroit maneuver can always be described as 'realism.' But these little gains may prove disastrous in the long run. . . . The 'temporary' arrangement with Admiral Darlan could be justified as a clever one, but . . . intelligence without integrity will fail in the end, and the people know it far better than do some of our politicians...
...Directed key churchmen to keep in close touch with governmental leaders (U.S. dealings with France's Admiral Jean François Darlan were assailed by both U.S. and Canadian churchmen...