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...Vichy's order. Rather than risk an ugly incident, the British last November gave up their watch outside the harbor, left the patrol to two U.S. destroyers. Whether Admiral King sends a stronger task force to Fort de France is strictly up to Vichy's Admiral Darlan, Hitler, and the patience of Franklin Roosevelt...
France's sly little Vice Premier Admiral Jean François Darlan felt it necessary to assure the French people last week that the Vichy-Nazi collaboration was in no way dishonorable. Making his first radio address to the nation, he unwittingly pictured himself as a high admirer of Adolf Hitler and an accomplished demagogue...
...choosing the road she is taking. . . . On the result of the negotiations [with Germany] directly depends the future of France. It is necessary for her to choose between life and death. The Marshal and the Government have chosen life." When it was over it seemed apparent that Admiral Darlan had put more weight on the word "sovereignty" than it could possibly bear. If it was his intention to conceal France's rapid motion toward de facto Axis partnership and full-fledged fascism, the mounting evidence made it impossible. For it remained clear last week that Germany, far from being...
...Darlan's political intrigues have brought him few if any friends among France's naval aristocracy, which, by tradition at least, keeps its mind on warships. He has a wife, as retiring as the Admiral is not, and a son, Alain, who recently quit the Navy, where he had been a code officer, in favor of the insurance business. Social superiors of Darlan like to call attention to his French-bourgeois habit of wearing a wing collar, which has earned him the nickname of "The Tax Collector." But all this the Admiral can and does ignore...
Last week Vichy put on sale throughout Unoccupied France 50,000 handsome portraits of Vice Premier Admiral Jean Francois Darlan-suitable for framing...