Word: darlan
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...bore the Axis stamp and perhaps foreshadowed Axis strategy. Whether Washington's recent diplomacy -kind words to Franco from President Roosevelt, loans, trade pacts-had come utterly to naught remained to be seen. U.S. relations with Franco were as cloudy, and perhaps as expedient, as those with Admiral Darlan. But U.S. and British military men took no chances...
These were the reasons-if any did-which came nearest to justifying the deal with Admiral Jean Francois Darlan. By peaceful arrangement with Dakar's Governor General Pierre Boisson, U.S. troops last week entered that disputed port, and the Allies' African communications improved...
...supposedly being fought for liberty, justice and freedom, Darlan posed a knotty question for the Allies: How far can a policy of military opportunism be allowed to go without sound political planning...
Britain's House of Commons took a poor view of the situation. M.P.s cheered at the announcement that Britain did not consider herself bound by the Darlan-Eisenhower agreements. Dourly, Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden explained that Darlan's assumption of power, "as far as I know . . . was a unilateral inspiration of Admiral Darlan himself...
...North African campaign for months, last week none of the overlapping Washington agencies knew how to handle civilian-goods shipments to Morocco, Algeria, etc. There was a four-cornered wrangle between 1) Lend-Lease (which pays for the goods), 2) the Board of Economic Warfare (which distrusts Darlan and all his works), 3) the State Department (which in the main is willing to play along with ex-Vichy officials but is not prepared for the African job), 4) the Army & Navy (the only people on the spot in North Africa). Herbert Lehman's Office of Rehabilitation and Relief...