CORRESPONDENCE.
American Prospect, The, June, 2001
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KILL THIS IDEA
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The article "Kill This Idea" by Jason Vest [TAP, May 7, 2001] is well intentioned but ill informed. To take the errors in order of appearance: The article states as an accepted fact that if the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) had not assassinated Admiral Jean Francois Darlan in 1942, "the Allies never would have gotten a foothold in North Africa." In fact, the Allies were already well-established in North Africa when Darlan was killed, and most historians ascribe the assassination to French royalist followers of the ...
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