Word: darlan
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...Department that Marshal Pétain's radio plea for closer Franco-Nazi cooperation (TIME, Aug. 25) might be just another effort to appease Hitler with promises instead of warships and bases. There was a bigger, simpler reason: the French seemed to be turning ever more violently against Darlan's Nazi-philes. Such a time was no time for the U.S. to seize a French island...
...took with him a portfolio of cartoons making fun of Pétain and Darlan as Nazi satellites (see cut). It was a shame, said Henry-Haye, "that a man with the Marshal's record should be subjected to this ridicule." Vichy's Ambassador does not send such cartoons home to France. He knows that most Frenchmen look on the U.S. as the savior of democracy, says he is afraid it would break their spirit if they learned how the U.S. feels about Vichy...
Last week Marshal Pétain raised his sly little Vice Premier Admiral Jean François Darlan to a new eminence-Minister of National Defense. Thereby Admiral Darlan apparently added to his Navy command that of Vichy's Army, whose largest. forces are in North Africa under General Maxime Weygand...
...Deloncle, leader of the prewar, monarchist Cagoulards ("hooded men"-TIME, Dec. 6, 1937). Such a force might be useful to the Nazis if they wished to foment an anti-Pétain revolution. Last week Vichy's Vice Premier Admiral Jean François Darlan forbade the legion to bear arms until it had crossed France's borders en route to Russia...
...became clear that De Gaulle and Britain would see it through, one by one French officers came from far places to join his cause. Vice Admiral Emile Henry Muselier, who had been retired by Admiral Darlan, reached England soon after the armistice and was immediately made commander of the Naval Force. Others were slower in arriving. Colonel Martial Valin, now commander of the Air Force, was in Brazil when the armistice was signed. Vichy offered to let him name his own terms if he would stay there. Said Colonel Valin: "I am going to serve France where my conscience dictates...