Word: darlan
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...Glaswegian, Brogan was educated at Glasgow, Oxford and Harvard, has since published scholarly, lively studies of three nations-The American Character, The English People, The Free State. His newest foray is a collection of 27 essays on French figures and subjects ranging from political and military (including Clemenceau, Jaures, Darlan, De Gaulle) to literary (Dumas, Proust...
Married. Alain Darlan, 32, son of Vichy's Admiral Vice Premier Darlan (assassinated in 1942), who at the invitation of President Roosevelt came to the U.S. in 1943 to get treatment for polio; and Mrs. Phyllis Kellum, 37, Warm Springs Foundation physiotherapist; both for the second time; in Warm Springs...
...coverage of Dunkirk and Dieppe was so good that Raymond Daniell, chief of the Times's London Bureau, hired him away. Daniell sent him to North Africa, where Middleton's analysis of the tangled Darlan-Giraud crisis was from the first surprisingly mature and shrewd. His up-front combat stories showed a reportorial eye, a literary...
Setting the precedent for this policy was the American retention of Admiral Jean Darlan as chief of French Africa. Analyzing this policy in Africa, Irwin Shaw has written "The Assassin," denouncing not only the collaboration with Darlan but the sidestepping of recognition of the underground forces...
Beyond a forceful presentation of his political views, Shaw has written a first-rate play. Not only is it an excellent, if colored, version of the intrigue behind the assassination of Darlan, but Shaw has used the best features of melodrama without its stagnant sentimentality and typed characterization...