Word: darlan
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...time of war it is necessary to think in terms of military expediency, rather than of the likes and dislikes of the people. The appointment of Admiral Darlan as Resident-General in North Africa has not satisfied the people of the Allied Nations, but it has proved of invaluable aid to the United States in its military campaign there. If the French Navy and North African Army had not abstained from organized resistance, the Allied troops might still be stalled at Algiers. As it is, we have been able to take almost all of French North Africa at a negligible...
LONDON--British anger over Allied North African negotiations with former Vichy cabinet members fiared today in the House of Commons, where Admiral Jean Francois Darlan was denounced as a "Quisling...
Deputy Prime Minister Clement R. Atlee acknowledged that Lt. Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, Allied North African Commander, was negotiating with Darlan regarding the "immediate military situation," then shut off further questions with: "It is not possible to make any further statement at this stage...
...different at Mers-el-Kebir and in Oran's own harbor, where Darlan's Navy had only a few small ships, but manned the coastal guns around the naval base, the docks and in the hills. (According to some pre-invasion reports, Germans had also manned coastal batteries in North Africa.) Vichy said that two Allied corvettes were sunk; two French torpedo boats and a sloop were damaged, probably by aircraft from La Senia, Tafaraoui and one other captured airfield. Last to fall was Mers-el-Kebir's airdrome...
...Marshal radioed to shrewd little Admiral Jean François Darlan, commander of Vichy's armed forces, in Algiers: "I am glad you are on the spot.* You can act. Keep me informed." It was Admiral Darlan, according to reports, who surrendered Algiers. He was a U.S. prisoner and rumor held that he might be persuaded to another ratlike twist of his career: a shift to the anti-Vichy side. As for Vichy's unsavory Chief of Government Pierre Laval, this wiliest of the men of Vichy was said to have hastened to Rome for a worried meeting...