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...invasion of French North Africa. The U.S. also heard the much fuller account of how last fortnight the A.E.F., building on that groundwork, had swept to a quick, clean victory. Within four days of the first landing, all official French resistance had ceased on orders of Admiral Jean Francois Darlan, chief of Vichy's armed forces. Algiers, Oran, Rabat, Casablanca and the rest were in American hands. So was Admiral Darlan...
Shifty Admiral Jean Francois Darlan, ex-collaborating Premier, heir-designate of Marshal Pétain and Commander in Chief of all French sea, land and air forces, had come to Algiers some time before the invasion, ostensibly to visit his sick son. In the Allied attack, the first step toward his country's liberation under Allied colors, Darlan the opportunist saw the great chance of his career...
...Darlan was the man who pulled the strings in Africa. At his command the Vichy armies would fight or lay down their arms. In that fact lay power such as he had never held. Darlan did not hesitate to make...
...Admiral Darlan is a member of that class euphemistically termed "opportunists." It is true that during the period between the wars he exhibited no tendencies toward Fascism. He did, however, conceive a definite dislike for the British after the Naval Disarmament Conference in Washington in 1921, when the French Navy was limited to approximately one-third the size of the British. With the fall of France in 1940, he made a complete about-face, and became one of the outstanding collaborationists in the Vichy regime. The attack by the British on the French fleet at Oran solidified his dislike...
...impossible to depend on the loyalty of Admiral Darlan in the present situation, but he must be retained in a responsible position so long as the course of military events warrants it. Once the Allies have taken complete and absolute control of North Africa, his term of usefulness is at an end, and he must be discarded in favor of a government acceptable both to the Allies and to the people of France. The State Department disregarded the feelings of the peoples of the United Nations by maintaining relations with Vichy, but it has since become evident that...