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...loathes the British. Of Dunkirk he has recently said: "That was glorious. I also remember Oran. That was shameful." Of the British blockade he has said: "Germans are more generous and more understanding of the needs of humanity than the English." And the Admiral still has a Navy to command. According to estimates: By British action, or by defection to the Free French forces, France has lost nine battleships, four cruisers, 15 destroyers and four submarines...
...Mexico on the eve of the Civil War. For by the action of the Vichy Government Hitler ... is now facing the continents of the Western Hemisphere.' Every French officer who adheres to Vichy, every French diplomat who adheres to Vichy, and every gun, ship and airplane they can command, is now under the orders of the Axis...
...Darlan career has been chiefly a triumph of political luck and wangling. During World War I he obtained the command of 25 mobile naval guns ashore, fighting at the Somme and Verdun. He later explained that he had wanted the job because as a Navy officer under Army officers he would get more attention, attract more patronage...
...Commander of France's only surviving, if heavily battered, military arm, and second in command of France. Marshal Pétain has made him not only Vice Premier but also Minister of Foreign Affairs, the Interior, the Navy, and Propaganda and Information-and by Constitutional Act he stands in succession to the Marshal himself. Under these titles and perquisites he is a neat French edition of the able, scheming, ruthless personality-type which has been a boon to Fascism wherever it has risen...
...getting around, Correspondent Brock pieced together the following agenda: By the end of this week the Nazis intended to bulldoze Turkey into permitting the passage of German troops and equipment, lending air bases to the Luftwaffe, placing roads, railroads and wires at complete disposal of the German High Command. If Turkey refused, Blitz...