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...Vichyfrench at Dakar, receiving Admiral Jean Francois Darlan (see p. 27), still expected Allied invasion...
...hard-driving Chancellor (1933) to the double-chinned, snappish war lord (1941). Bombast and ostentatious health fade from Mussolini's naked dome after the debacle in Greece. From the present's point of view, Laval looks untrustworthy from the start. Irony stalks beside Winston Churchill and Admiral Darlan as they review French sailors together. The tread of marching armies forecasts the kind of fight they will make later on-the Germans, thudding, dour, professional; the Russians, massive, resolute, rough; the Italians, light, out-of-step, a little too gay, a little silly...
...only member widely familiar in the U.S. is Fernand de Brinon, recently Vichy's agent in Paris). Laval himself is Chief of Government, holds the portfolios of Foreign Affairs, Interior and Information. Former Vice Premier Admiral Darlan has been given command of all Vichy's armed forces and made an Admiral of the Fleet for life...
VICHY--Pierre Laval, Premier-designate in a French collaboration government, will return here tomorrow from Paris to confer with Marshal Henri Petain and Vice-Premier Admiral Francois Darlan on formation of his cabinet, which is expected to be completed by the end of the week, it was announced tonight...
Some observers thought that Admiral Darlan had announced the agreement to give Germany an excuse to apply pressure to prevent it. Others felt that Vichy's hand was being forced by France's internal unrest. In either case, Vichy was nearing a showdown...