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...Vichy's catlike Vice Premier Admiral Jean François Darlan angrily considered a letter from 62-year-old General Count Benoît Léon de Fornel de la Laurencie. A brave fighter in France's brief World War II defense, the General was among the few French commanders at Dunkirk. There he bucked up his exhausted troops by holding a review. Said Gringoire: "When they passed in front of their chief, they turned their hardened, sunburned faces toward him, in an immense téte-à-téte. All of their expressions were...
...name has often been linked with the pre-war Croix de Feu (fascists) and Cagoulards (monarchist terrorists). To command the French Mediterranean Fleet, Vichy appointed young Admiral Gabriel Adrien Josèphe Paul Auphan, British-hating favorite of Admiral Darlan, brother of an editor of the British-hating Action Fran...
Last week Marshal Pétain raised his sly little Vice Premier Admiral Jean François Darlan to a new eminence-Minister of National Defense. Thereby Admiral Darlan apparently added to his Navy command that of Vichy's Army, whose largest. forces are in North Africa under General Maxime Weygand...
...fight Russia, headed by Eugène Deloncle, leader of the prewar, monarchist Cagoulards ("hooded men"-TIME, Dec. 6, 1937). Such a force might be useful to the Nazis if they wished to foment an anti-Pétain revolution. Last week Vichy's Vice Premier Admiral Jean François Darlan forbade the legion to bear arms until it had crossed France's borders en route to Russia...
...Livres Français is another series of French books, published by Brentano...