Word: juin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Prestige. One of Sidi Mounsaf's fellow puppets, bewhiskered, penny-pinching Admiral Jean Estéva, made good his escape from Tunisia. In Estéva's post as Tunisia's Resident General. General Giraud plunked his own man: tall, jolly General Alphonse Juin, French field commander in Tunisia, to administer the protectorate until the permanent Resident General, impetuous, gallant General Charles Mast, recovers from injuries received in a recent automobile accident...
Soon the rail, highway and air approaches to Algiers from east and west on the land, and from Sardinia or Sicily by air, were commanded by the invaders. General Alfonse Pierre Juin, Vichy's military commander in North Africa, reported to Vichy that gunfire was nearing the town, but there was no detailed evidence that his native troops and French officers put up more than a token resistance. At 7 p.m. on Sunday, 16 hours after the U.S. troops landed, he and Admiral Darlan agreed to surrender Algiers. Over the docks, the flames and smoke were still rising...
That reality, no doubt, was clear to swarthy, scheming Pierre Laval when, on the day new Madagascar attacks were launched, he conferred first with German Consul General Krug von Nidda, then with General Alphonse Juin, who succeeded General Weygand as Commander in Chief in French North Africa. Asked if the Madagascar attack increased the possibility of United Nations' action against Dakar, Laval sputtered: "Why ask me? Why not cable Roosevelt...
...Dissension between Admiral Darlan and Vichy's North African High Commander, General Maxime Weygand, has often been rumored (TIME, Aug. 25). Into General Weygand's sphere last week Vichy moved three officers whose fealty to Vichy seemed unquestioned. Fair-faced, jolly General Alphonse Pierre Juin, 55, became Commander of Vichy's Moroccan forces. Just a month ago the Nazis saw fit to release General Juin from a German prison camp. Fellow officers have often noted his totalitarian sympathies. Suave, dark General Jean Josèphe Marie Gabriel de Lattre de Tassigny became commander of Vichy...