DARLAN'S TREACHERY PROVEN DECISIVELY
In the last of the 200,000 documents known as "Fuehrer Conferences," which were captured in the German Naval Archives, the treachery of Admiral Darlan, onefeime Commander-in-Chief of the French Navy, is established beyond any doubt. ; Revealed officially for the first time' are the cireumstanees in which he made overtures to the German Commander, Admiral Raeder, and . through him to Hitler. They stamp him as the arch-trai-tor of the French' Services. In the autumn of 1941 he offered ' to give the German Navy information he possessed about the disposition of British naval forces. On December 3 Darlan went to Paris "with his. wife and dined with Admiral Otto Schultze. After reviling the British Government, Darlan warned Schultze not to take big warships into St. Nazaire because, he said, they could not be got out again for about a year owing to lack of water. This was about three months before the big British raid on St. Nazaire. He also told the Germans — the archives reveal — that the personnel of the French Navy hate'd the British, and that. he and" others wished the British Fleet driven out of the Mediterranean. Barely a year later — on Christmas Eve, 1942 — Darlan was shot de'ad by an "unknown Frenchman." '
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Chronicle (Levin), 17 January 1948, Page 4
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