Word: darlan
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Germany was squeezing tighter the noose about the neck of her mortal enemy. There was no more resistance left in sagging old Marshal Pétain; in puffy little Admiral Jean François Darlan there never had been any. Vice Premier Darlan went to Paris during the week, got his orders, returned to pass them on to Chief of State Pétain in Vichy. The orders remained secret, but perhaps Vichy's Ambassador to Paris Fernand de Brinon let the secret slip when he said that formation of a volunteer force to help Germany fight Russia "might...
Nobody expected the Communist Party to fold up at once. There were some arguments that if Russia fell quickly, and Stalin was succeeded by a Muscovite Darlan, Hitler could take over the Communist International, make even more effective use of U.S. Communists than Stalin had been able to. But the general belief was that the mainspring...
...Hitler, with his tattered lackey, Mussolini, at his tail and Admiral Darlan frisking by his side, pretends to build out of hatred, appetite and racial assertion a new order for Europe. Never did so mocking a fantasy obsess the mind of mortal...
...reported that General Weygand had not only flatly refused certain demands of Admiral Darlan but had countered with sharp demands of his own. At week's end, when General Weygand flew back to Algeria, it was said that he had won his way, and had been given complete direction of Vichy's colonial "foreign policy." General Weygand's chief demands supposedly were that...
...Darlan-Weygand collision at least gave weight to the frequently stated theory that Vichy's course is determined less by aging Marshal Pétain than by his more active subordinates...