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...Commander of the French North African Army, General Maxime Weygand, for conferences with Marshal Henri Philippe Petain and other chiefs of state. Behind closed doors spruce little General Weygand collided with Vichy's chief contact man with the Nazis, sly little Vice Premier Admiral Jean François Darlan. Their collision was heard outside the closed doors and reverberated in diplomatic circles for days...
Last week Vichy's wily, grey little Vice Premier Admiral Jean François Darlan announced that France "will act to hasten the hour of peace." Since he also was openly of the opinion that Britain could not win the war, this was tantamount to saying that France would now openly help the Axis end the war by winning it. That Britain was well aware of her former ally's hostile intentions was evident...
Vice Premier Darlan's latest statement might have come from the clamorous mouth of Adolf Hitler himself. Lashing at British policy ever since the Versailles Treaty, Admiral Darlan worked heatedly up to World War II in which, he declared, Britain had seized 792,000 tons of French shipping valued at 12,000,000,000 francs...
France's deeds continued to parallel Darlan's words. While French Ambassador to the U.S. Gaston Henry-Haye was solemnly assuring the U.S. Government that France would not go beyond her Armistice commitments to the Nazis, the Nazis were permitting Vichy to build an air force for defense of the French Empire. (Under the Armistice terms, all air equipment in the Unoccupied Zone was to be dismantled.) One grey rainy day old Marshal Pétain went to Aulnat airfield, near Clermont-Ferrand (France's Burbank-Akitin...
...ports into Nazi hands. The goods have been shipped to Martinique, thence to Dakar or Casablanca on the West African coast, thence to North African ports, thence (running the British blockade) to Marseille. The British Government announced last week that it had obtained copies of an order by Admiral Darlan to French merchant captains to scuttle their ships rather than submit to British capture-the order including descriptions of the best German-tested scuttling methods...