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Today's conference in Paris among Admiral Francois Darlan, special emissary of Marshal Henri Philippe Petain, the Pro-German Laval and Hitler's personal envoy, Otto Abetz, was said to have "practically ended" the 50-day old crisis in French-German relations...
Beaten and trouble-beset France appeared to be heading toward a government dominated by four men--Laval, Admiral Darlan, Paul Baudouin, and General Charles Hunziger--with the aged Petain retaining full authority as Chief of State...
...sign was the appearance of massed parachute troops in The Netherlands and of more long-range guns on France's north ern coast, presaging an end-the-war attack on Britain, which the Marshal believes probably will succeed. Another sign was the increasing influence of Admiral Jean Darlan, who has had no love for the British since Oran. Admiral Darlan may soon be named second in command to Marshal Petain and his successor if the Marshal dies. Last week Ambassador Leahy had a talk with him about the French Fleet...
...chauffeur drove Admiral Darlan down past Paris and Orleans, past Nevers and the country of the milk-white cows, across the demarcation line at Moulins and up the stony Allier to Vichy. A few days later he learned that he would have to drive the Admiral to Paris and its secret environs probably many more times. The Admiral had been named official negotiator with the Germans. But strangely ten days, twelve days, a fortnight passed; and the Admiral was not called to the occupied zone. The Germans were slow about their answer...
...would use. France still had two armies on the continent: 100,000 in unoccupied France, which could at least be a nuisance; 2,000,000 prisoners in occupied France and Germany, whose cost of living the French were bearing. France still had a Navy, which was headed by Admiral Darlan-no lover of Britain since Oran and Dakar, but no lover of Germany either and certainly not of Italy; a man who loves only France and who could devise uses for his Fleet which would not be convenient to the Axis. France still had an economy. Last week Finance Minister...