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...five days men of the democracies wondered. The U.S. Government was doing business, if not with Hitler, with one of Hitler's stooges, the opportunist, the Nazi collaborationist, Admiral Jean François Darlan. The invasion of North Africa was the first great political-military venture of the U.S. in World War II. Its tone would set the tone for the others to come. How could the U.S. Government, opponent of Fascism, exponent of the Atlantic Charter, explain this? Was not freedom to come in the wake of the Americans? If Norway were invaded, would the U.S. thenceforth move...
...Vichy submarine put out beyond the barges, was promptly attacked. The Admiralty Building-on that day the headquarters of visiting Admiral Jean François Darlan-was quickly cleared of the invaders. Vichy said that they were captured...
...Marshal radioed to shrewd little Admiral Jean François Darlan, commander of Vichy's armed forces, in Algiers: "I am glad you are on the spot.* You can act. Keep me informed." It was Admiral Darlan, according to reports, who surrendered Algiers. He was a U.S. prisoner and rumor held that he might be persuaded to another ratlike twist of his career: a shift to the anti-Vichy side. As for Vichy's unsavory Chief of Government Pierre Laval, this wiliest of the men of Vichy was said to have hastened to Rome for a worried meeting...
Twenty French hostages were seized by the German authorities in reprisal. They would be shot in three days if Hans's murderer were not discovered. When Françoise Galle, daughter of the village's leading citizen, walked through the streets she met the sad, angry gaze of the hostages' desperate relatives. Why, they asked, was Franchise's father doing nothing to save their sons and brothers? Was he not a French Deputy and their "ambassador" to Gestapo headquarters in Paris? Had the Galles gone over to the Nazis...
...enraged police finally nabbed four boys in the act of hauling down the flag of Vichy's Légion Française des Anciens Combattants. One escaped, but rejoined his comrades when he learned that they had been caught. The four were grilled for a week for the names of their supposedly adult leaders. But the children kept mum. In the end they were turned over to military authorities after a gendarme refused to handcuff them. ("I cannot do that to loyal Frenchmen...