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CHAPTER 32 OF "THE HINGE OF · FATE”

THE

N Nov. 13.

1942,

Gen. Eisenhower flew from Gibraltar Algiers to take the bar-

responsibility for the

gain which Clark had just with Darlan made

assume direct control.

Allied

commanders

and

The

and

were

officials on the spot unanimous that Darlan was the only Frenchman who could rally North-West Africa to the Allies.

Giraud, whose power to com- mand French allegiance

was

U.S.

ANSWER

TO INFLATION

By Robert Waithman

WASHINGTON. sharing out the goods on which the people will be able to spend their money, but with the iden of assisting the speedy produc- ton of more and more goods.

THE United States, like

Britain, is now look ing into the face of a great danger: the danger of inflation.

Prices here have risen ferociously since the Korean war began.

And in the United States, as in Britain, a long, expensive re- armament programme, wasteful and unwanted, forced on the world by the men in the Krem- lin, is just beginning.

The plans of the United States Government to meet and overcome this peri of inflation are now emerging. They are rew vealed to be based on a new Idea: an idea that had not been thought up ten years ago, when the last big rearmament drive was moving into high gear,

Tis that the United States this THE idea in its simplest form time can produce toolt out of Inflation.

Some controls, soma allocation of scarce materials, some increased taxation will be needed.

But they will be designed, not with the aim of restricting and

ASSASSINATION

DARLAN

OF

By Winston Churchill

yesterday that French sailors were sent to their death against your line of battle off Casablanca, and now, for the sake of power and office, Dar- Ian plays the turncoat,

A permanent arrangement with Darlan or the formation of a Darlan Government in French North Africa would not be understood by the great masses of ordinary people, whose simple loyalties are our strength...

already exposed as a myth, had The President replied:

offered to work with

Darlan

when he heard of the German

proved

18 Nov., 42.

invasion of Unoccupied France. I too have encountered the deep Darlan's authority was

10 his by the obedience

fire" orders at Orun, in Morocco, and throughout Algeria, A final

formal and

agreement

was

therefore signed between Darlan and Eisenhowa on the same day,

L

GO

currents of feeling about Dar- Jan. I felt I should act fast, I have just given out a statement at my Press Con- ference which I hope you will like, and I trust it will be accepted at face value.

Britisher and one American Darlan's

emissarica,

brought to whom would be given an over French West Africa, with charity not to administer evil the great base of Dakar, to the functions but to hold a veto Allies. power over French civil nd- ministrators,

direct and to them in are instances to fol- low out certain policies.

·

It is the wonderful American experience of the last ten years that has inspired this new think- ing. The discovery of theso ten years has been that America had never previously known ita own strength.

Any economist would have been derided if he had said be- fore the war that, in the Ave years from 1980 to

1844, the total annual output of the

would United States

bo In- But that creased by 75 percent. is what happened: and in coa- siderable measure the war was won because it happened,

A$

S the war was ending most of the high officials on the economic side in Washington thought that hard times would come as soon as the shooting son's men litre, reminiscing in stopped. One of the Govern private the other day, said: First we were afraid of infla- of ufrald Then we were deflation. Then we didn't know what we were afraid of, but we thought there would be a reces- ston. And still nothing bad has happened."

The national income, which the Department of Commerce calculates on the basis of pretty nearly everyone's earnings, had bean 72,5 thousand million dol- lars in 1039, It was 103,8 thousand million dollars in 1044, the last full year of war. The

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was a fraction of what had been expected, and in 1947 the nn- tional income leaped up to 201.7 thousand million dollars. Last year it was 216.8 thousand mil- lion dollars.

Now the big rearmament drive la beginning--the cra of what On Dec. 19 the first emissary Grey Mobilisation: the twilight people in Washington can the

of de Gaulle, Gen. Francols time between elther a dawn or ́a d'Astier de la Vigerie, arrived darkness.

unofficially in Algiers to explore the ground on behalf of his

Its dangers to the economic teader. He was the brother of This is a time when huge profits life of America are plain to all. Henri, who had played a lead-are being made by the masters ing part in the rising in the of industry and high and still town of Algiers on Nov. 8, and higher

are being de- wages But passion ran high in Eng. who was now implicated in the manded by the men, land about the Darlan deal. It Royalist conspiracy which aim-

During the first nine months affected poignantly some of my ed at bringing the Comte de of this your 1,000,000 workers most Paris to power. The practical were given wage increases. So For cample, I sent word to friends who had been

of Gen. d'Astior de la high have profits been and so Eisenhower that all political affronted by Munich, with whose result prisoners in North and West impulses I had moved at crucial Vigerle's visit was to stimulate far have prices risen that the the Gaullist opposition to Dar-spectacle of employers who call "IS the war. Afrios must be released. If moments before

in the unions and voluntarily Darlan fails to carry out this this then what we are fighting

them wage increases for directive, Eisenhower must at for?" they asked. Many of those

Simultaneously with these which no demand had been whom I was in closest once exercise his authority as with

talks

the Monarchist elements made is now becoming common- and Commander and mental

moral harmony

place. Supreme

in Algiers decided to press Dar- take independent action, in were in extreme distress.

lan to abdicate and hand over Much of this is because labour the matter.

the

Only a lemon

In London I thought that France's future begining to

Eisenhower's action was over- whelmingly justified on military grounds. On Nov. 14 I sent him

Any the following message: thing for the battle, but the polities will have to be sorted out later on"

Disquiet

the Darlan As the facts of agreement became known they caused widespread disquiet at home. I was conscious of the of opinion around rising tic

was grieved to And the success of our immense opera tion, and the victory of Alamein, overshadowed in the minds

SDC.

many

I

of my best friends by what seemed to them a base and squalld deal with ano

of our

most bitter enemies. I consider- ed their attitude unreasonable and not sufficiently considerate of the revoritles of the struggle and the lives of the troops.

As their criticisms became sharper I grew resentful, and also somewhat contemptuous of their sense

I was relieved by his publie statment, which he had cabled

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Shot down

On the afternoon of Dec, 24

the United States was down to 1,940,000- lowest for two years.

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All these emotions were fanned by the de Gaulle Com- mitter and organisation in our midst. The Press gave full ex- Darlan had been smitten by pression to this mood. Certainly President's reference to a thore was a real and vivid case "temporary expedient," and was to be made and to be mot. Not

Darlan drove down from his pur wage increases, the FTO feel his growing only Parliament but the nation villa to his offices in the Palais fits made out of speculation, At this time he wrote found it hard to swallow. " d'Ete. At the door of his bureau the rapid upward course of com 19olation.

Gaulle banned; Darlam uplifted.” to Gen. Clark:

At the same time the facts could he was shot down by a young modity prices, the slower but not Monsieur le General,

man of twenty named Bonnier vess ominous climb of not be stated nor the arguments

de la Chapelle. The Admiral sale prices-all these are presa- deployed in public.

dlod within the hour on the ing the nation towards infatica. Information from various sources

operating table of a nter-by How Is the pressure to be re- substantiate tends to

Secret session

hospital. The youthful assassin afsted? There are controls now view that I am only a lemon ments made for the time being

which the Americans vill While in my own mind, right had, according to some stories, on instalment buying everyone Heari is required to make bigger in Northern and Western

drop after they have squeezed by or wrongly, I never had the Astier, and under much per down-payments on houses Africa, I thoroughly under-

it dry."

slightest doubt that it was my suasion had worked himself in pay off the balance in less time. cars and refrigerators, and to stand and approve the feeling

duty to support Gen. Elsca- in the United States and Great Britain and among all In the line of conduct which 1 hower and to save the lives of to an exalted state of mind as There has been one quite stif

other United the

Nations

pure the soldiers committed to the the saviour of France from increase in the income-tax rate, have adopted out of

and there are stiffer taxes to that in view of the history

French patriotic feeling, in enterprise, I was acutely non- wicked leadership,

come, Some scarce materials spite of the serious dind- sitive to the opposite argument,

and some are being allocated, Apart from a small circle of vantages which it entails for and understood, if only to over-

building "luxury"

s the moment when it ride, the discarded alternative personal friends grouped round stopped. was extremely easy for me to conviction.

d'Astier, there was no open sup- post in Algiers for his act. He

I have accepted General Elsen-

hower's political

arrange-

of the past two years no per- manent arrangement

nont should be made with Admiral Darlan. People in the United Nations Whewise would never under- stand the recognition of constitution of the Vichy Go- vemment in France or in any French territory. We are op- posed to Frenchmen who sup- port Hitler and the Axis.

the of proportion; but

I understood what was troubling them and felt it myself. The re- action in the United States was not so violent as in England, but many were agog. I did not think that President Roosevelt was sufficiently, impressed with the surge of feeling, arki for- tainly not of British feeling.

Deep currents

Former Naval Person to Presi

dent Roosevelt 17 Nov., 42 currente of foollag

1 ought to let you know what

very

are stirred by the arrange-

BTLY

me,

at

the

let events take their course without my intervention, my docs own personal position

. not come into consideration.

been

connected

with

and

bring

But the Government's present On Dec. 10, a month after the was tried by court-martial un-effort is to avoid the "tough" con- price-ceilings, landing, the mounting pressure der Giraud's anders, and, much trols-rationing.

Path cleared

Government is putting its prin- the cipul faith in the capacity of United States to produce and produce--enough produce, and for, tho war machine and the pence machine at home, enough of for

abront Gen. which

American help,

in the circles of which I was to his surprise, was executed by wage stabilisation formulas. The conscious led me to seek refuge a Bring squid shortly after I acted only because the Ameri- in Searst Session of the House dawn on Dec. 20.

can Government has solemnly of Commons. The spooch which undertaken to restore the in- I then made was conceived with tegrity of French sovereignty the sole purpose of changing the

The

COMM as it existed in 1939, and be.

e prevailing opinion.

the and the

On recelying the zews cause the armistice between mons were convinced

assassination was fact that all further Parliamen- Darlan's the Axis and France broken by the total occupation tany opposition stopped after the Elsenbower hurmod back from enough to keep shortages at of Metropolitani France, Secret Session quenched the the Tunisian front.

Marshal hostile Press and reassumed the cumstances the only thing to do tend the areas of plenty. against which the

'country. has solemnly predosted,

No one in our Army has any authority to discuss the future of France and Goverment

The French Empire,

Government future French will be established, not by Individual in Metropolitan but by France or

people after they have been not free

the victory of the United I did Nations. The present rangement in North and West Africa

la anly a temporary expodient justified solely by the stress of battle....

the French vergehemselves

by

Old proverb

The President kept mo ment with Darien. The more touch with his own mood.

reflect

upon it the mord.

in

pedient, justifiable solely by I told the Press yesterday in

not act through pride, but ambition, or calculation,

which because the position

country occupied in my made my duty to act.

Deterioration

Political

the trea nations

nced

In the cir-arms' length and insure and ex-

was to nominato Giraud to fu

the vacant place. We could not run the risk of

af afvil disorder be!

1

VUTIS

of

hind the front,

and indirect though decisive pressure affairs In North exerted by the American au-THE trade unions have joined

the movement. Most Africa deteriorated rapidly due thorities to achieve the appoint-

Not ing the last days of 1942. ment of Girand to supreme them have now learned the only was

desperate though transitory political lesson that nothing is so certain Giraud for power in North Africa.

to bring bigger wagen-as bigger among DOWOT

production. the

thene

When the integrity of France's struggle. ngaánsjon

sovereignty is an accomplish-

ed fact and I hope that it the recent adherente to will be in the least possible Allied cauNG,

ment.

Held on

Darian, Nogues, The path was cleared for the With the call go warnings. There must also be Dr Alan time it is my firm Intention Boisson, and others, but also ne- Frencia forces now rallied

and North-West Africa Valentine, the Ecoturnie Stabil- to return to privato Hte and tive discontent among these men. North to end my days, in the course who had helped the Allied to unite with the Free Frenchiser, is saying) "economy in non- rendinosa in the of which I have ardently landing on Nov. 8, and among Movement round de Chile, and essentials," served my country, in rotire the small but active group comprising all Frenchmen American poopro, in the interest which was ardent for de Gaulle. Longhout the world outside of pedbo and stability, to “reduce Glemmar control. On Icaring of Darlen'e tabe de Gaulle made a utile our concept of what we

must

have to be happy." With- abburt WIS In addition there was not the first approach. He ing support for a movement to to Φρανσ

Washington for a out the right public response the the place the Comte de Paris the long-delayed fast meeting with now iden will not work, and

restrictions and controls every- only claimant The Admiral het on

of the President when the drop, it is permitted you in because he felt that for

at die head drafted and dispatched through 4 provisional war-time ad- Allied, changela a, miremago

to Vichy, Tho patchisi upang

convinced. I become that it President to Prime Minister.

20 Nov., 42. can only be a temporary

confidence an old Orthodox Church proverb used in the Balicans that appears appli- cable to our present Decian-

the alrose of battle. We must not overlook the serious poli- tical Injury which may be dono

to our cause, not only in France but throughout qurope, by the feeling that we are ready to make serma

with the loçál:Quislings.

Lidas sai odious record.

de Gaulle problemy "My chil

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to tho Chowit

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to

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crossed the bridge.

Afrion and hold the key of

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