Word: darlan
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...launch a small boat in the surf off the Algerian coast during his daring trip by submarine from England to meet French underground agents before the North African invasion. At other times, he served as deputy to General Dwight Eisenhower, helped make the Allied deal with French Admiral Jean Darlan, later commanded the Fifth Army in its long, bitter fight up the Italian peninsula. This week, as it must to all generals (it seems), publication day came to Four-Star General Mark Clark, now Chief of the Army Field Forces. In readable, relaxed prose, Clark's Calculated Risk (Harper...
...Military expediency dictated that we do business with Darlan to minimize bloodshed and get on with the war . . . He did the job. If I had it to do over again, I would choose again to deal with the man who could do the job-whether it turned out to be Darlan or the Devil himself...
...during the war years, Roosevelt showed remarkably good humor during the conferences. When the Russian armies were on the offensive at Stalingrad, he told the reporters: "You can say [I am] dee-lighted, if you want to." And when they questioned him on U.S. dealings with the dubious Admiral Darlan, he retorted with "an old Balkan proverb": "My children, you are permitted in time of great danger to walk with the Devil until you have crossed the bridge...
...General Eisenhower turning suddenly to Vichy-French Admiral Darlan during the early days of the much-discussed Darlan deal. He jabs Darlan in the chest with a peremptory forefinger, snaps an instruction, and strides away...
...Cavell, was captured again by the Germans in World War II, during the Sedan breakthrough. He escaped again, made his way with Allied help to Gibraltar - and frustration. He had been picked by the Allies to command French forces in Africa after the invasion in 1942, but sly Admiral Darlan, who had to be bullied and wheedled into going over from Vichy to the Allies, kept the allegiance of most of the troops. After Darlan's assassination, Giraud was briefly the No. 1 French commander in North Africa. Then General de Gaulle replaced him and Henri Giraud was finally...