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VICHY-Armed with a threat to send the formidable fleet to Africa beyond Germany's reach Admiral Francois Darlan arrived in Paris to seek a compromise on the Nazi-supported demands which would install Pierre Laval as virtual dictator of France...
...French Navy Minister and Chief Under the proposed compromise Petain would surrender to Darlan his direct control of the government, remaining only as titular chief of state, and Laval would be brought back into the Vichy regime in a secondary role...
VICHY--Restoration to power of Pierre Laval "with even greater authority" than before his ousting as French Vice-Premier on Dec. 14, and perhaps a completely new Vichy cabinet pledged to closer collaboration with Adolf Hitler appeared imminent tonight...
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...