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...argument in favor of its application in North Africa ran as follows: the U.S. had hoped to deal with General Henri Honore Giraud, but, when the time came, his name spelled little magic with civil and military leaders in North Africa. Crafty Admiral Jean Francois Darlan -either by accident or design-was on the spot: it was he who issued the cease-firing order, it was he who promised to deliver Dakar (capture of which, in the estimates of some U.S. officials, might have sacrificed 40,000 lives...
...Admiral Darlan began digging in, there were some who began to wonder whether U.S. policy had really paid off. This week came news that Dakar had been opened to Allied forces. But although some French troops were fighting with the Americans, there was no record of Darlan having ordered them to do so. He had been powerless to bring the French fleet at Toulon to the side of the Allies. If he succeed in establishing himself as leader of the French, would post-war France be governed by the officers' clique and her "200 families...
Those who upheld the new U.S. policy believed that President Roosevelt meant what he said when he termed the relations with Darlan a "temporary expediency." But with the shifty Admiral considering himself more & more of a permanent fixure (see p. 43). the next move...
...French West Africa (including the port of Dakar). The three men who joined him were Kansas-bred Lieut. General Dwight Eisenhower, Commander of Allied Forces in North Africa, Irish-born Admiral Sir Andrew Browne Cunningham, Commander of Allied Naval Forces under Eisenhower, and Admiral Jean Louis Xavier Francois Darlan, newly self-proclaimed "Chief of State in French Africa...
...months British newsmen in the U.S. have simmered with distaste under such restraints. Last week, when they found it almost impossible to transmit to England any dispatch even hinting U.S. civilian distaste for the North African deal with Vichyite Admiral Jean François Darlan, they boiled over...