Word: darlan
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...patiently waiting for the day when we get the news that Darlan has been shot or hanged by French patriots," said Andre Morize, professor of French literature, in an interview over the Crimson Network last night...
...Darlan was therefore an essential key in the quick conquest of North Africa since he could control both the people and the army. The use of Darlas was therefore a brilliant coup on the part of General Eisenhower, whose conduct of the campaign received many compliments in Morize's talk...
Winds in Vichy. Darlan and his acts did not appear to be accepted by the Vichy Government. Marshal Pétain, under sudden and critical pressure, changed his course like a weathervane, finally succumbed in impotence when German armies, at Hitler's command, swept through Unoccupied France in a 24-hour dash to the Mediterranean.* From Vichy's radio, now fully under German control, came repeated repudiations of everything Darlan did and the injunction to Frenchmen to obey only Pétain's orders...
...appointed Delegate General of North Africa in January 1941, he carried with him orders from Pétain to defend the empire against aggression as he saw fit, and to ignore contrary orders which-if an attack took place-might be forced out of Vichy under German pressure. Darlan might well have carried similar instructions, which would get him obedience from local authorities. Darlan got such obedience: the men of Vichy rallied at once to his call, placed themselves under his command. This was what the Allied forces needed...
...That Darlan was at the same time making use of his powers to assure his own future position in North Africa was beyond question. Needed by the Americans, able to quell Vichy resistance in Africa or unleash civil strife which would tie Eisenhower's troops down to far-flung police work, the shrewd Admiral was proving a serious and unexpected annoyance...