Proud to Die

From North Africa by way of London last week came the first news about Admiral Jean Franc,ois Darlan's assassin. He was 20-year-old Bonnier de la Chapelle, a member of the French patriotic youth organization Chantiers de Jeunesse, which aided Allied landings in North Africa but became bitter when Collaborationist Darlan emerged as chief of what many Frenchmen considered a Fascist North African regime. De la Chapelle had no connection with the Comte de Paris and his Monarchist organization. Instead, the Monarchists may have hoped to get power through Darlan.

Patriot De la Chapelle knew when he pulled the trigger that he would pay with his life. Under a rigorous colonial third degree he would say only: "No accomplices were needed to do justice." Before the firing squad he did not flinch.

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