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Back & forth between Vichy and Paris shuttled Marshal Petain's dapper, middle-aged Vice Premier, Admiral Jean Frangois Darlan. At length Vichy announced that "certain easements" would presently take place between the Occupied and Unoccupied Zones. Hereafter Germany would charge France less for the support of the Nazi Army of Occupation, beginning with a reduction of from 400,000,000 to 300,000,000 francs a day. Generally speaking, the demarcation line would be opened for goods, cash, securities, and for people who wished to attend the sickness or burial of near relatives. Postcard correspondence would be permitted between...
Conquered France today is a gigantic sounding board for the shout of rumor, the whisper of fact. Last week it reverberated to an intensified campaign for collaboration with Germany. To Paris to talk with the Germans went Marshal Petain's "heir," Admiral Jean François Darlan, who then made a quick and mysterious trip to Beauvais (near which last year he met with Adolf Hitler) before going home to report to his aged chief...
This was not too remarkable, for a few days earlier Vice Premier Admiral Darlan of France had given out a fat sheaf of statistics on steady French cargo traffic through the British blockade in the Mediterranean. While the British had sunk seven French food ships, said Admiral Darlan, they had never sunk, or even stopped, a French ship escorted by war craft. According to the Vice Premier, the Vichy merchant marine had thus far brought through the British blockade, mostly from Africa, 7,000,000 bushels of grain; 363,000 tons of wine; 180,000 tons of peanut...
France announced that her Navy would convoy food from abroad to the ports of unoccupied France, a move which will either put a leak in the British blockade or bring the French and British Navies into conflict again. In Paris Vice Premier Admiral Jean Francois Darlan closed a deal under which Germany will help to run French industry (i.e., direct it). From Morocco General Maxime Weygand rushed to Vichy, lunched with Admiral Darlan and assured the new boss that he was no foe of "collaboration." After the luncheon a communique announced that France would defend "any part of her Empire...
...reasons against the food shipments are hazy, to say the least. British spokesmen answered Darlan by saying that they were willing to try out a plan of relief but that no plan had been proposed. Mr. Hoover's committee stands ready and waiting in America. It is claimed that Britain's effort will be impaired by leakage of food to the Nazis. But the fact is that the Hoover proposal makes allowance for this, and guarantees a cessation of shipments if it occurs; the plan is air tight. Another argument is that it is "not America's business" to question...