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...claim that diplomatic stress & strain between Vichy and the U.S. would soon be over was made this week by Vichy's wily little Vice Premier, Admiral Jean François Darlan. He said that "full agreement" was near. He implied that Vichy would guarantee the neutrality of the French Fleet and all of France's African colonies, including Madagascar, Axis-coveted strategic stronghold in the Indian Ocean. Admiral Darlan also said that the U.S. would resume food shipments to French North Africa, cut off last November when Vichy recalled her North African commander, Maxime Weygand...
Washington said nothing. But Admiral Darlan's claim that Vichy-U.S. relations were improving was backed up by positive Vichy action. It was revealed that a German submarine stopped last month at Fort-de-France, Martinique, and landed an officer with a gangrenous leg who badly needed a hospital. The U.S. Government immediately demanded that Vichy forbid the Axis the use of French Western Hemisphere ports, for any purpose whatever. Last week Vichy promised...
Apparently the British did not dare to attack Billancourt. Was not Admiral Darlan awaiting just such a provocation to bring the French Fleet* within the sphere of collaboration? Of course the British had broadcast warnings to the workers of Billancourt that they might bomb the district. But that, thought the Germans, was probably only a clumsy British attempt to wage a war of nerves...
Navy Commandant Jules Fontaine, chief of Admiral Darlan's secretariat, happened to be in Paris. From the roof of a five-story apartment building in nearby Auteuil, Commandant Fontaine saw a sight he had never thought to seethe night sky reddened by a score of great fires in the Renault plant. Scuttling back to Vichy the next day, he described the roar and crackle of flames, the screams of people trapped in the debris, and said that the ruins were still smoking when he left. The raiders sent some 200 planes in all, Commandant Fontaine estimated, and they dropped...
Vice Premier Admiral Jean Franqois Darlan announced last week that the 26,500-ton battleship Dunkerque had put into the French Mediterranean naval base of Toulon under her own power. Even after 18 months of repair work at Oran, where she was blasted at anchor by the British Fleet (TIME, Sept. 16, 1940), the Dunkerque is still too battered for active service. But Nazi Germany knows, as do Vichyfrance and the U.S., that eleven French cruisers are in European or African waters, handy for immediate action, that the Dunkerque's sister ship Strasbourg is fit & ready, that the balance...