Tuhia he tomokanga mō tēnei wāhanga - I waenganui o Whiringa-ā-nuku 1942, i muri i te rangimarie a Francois Darlan ki ngā kaiwhaiwhai a Allied o Awherika ki te Raki
I te tau kotahi tekau mā rua, i whakamātau a Henri d'Astier de la Vigerie, te kaitohutohu mōhiotanga o Vichy, ki te whakatairanga i tētahi hurihanga a te kingi. (Kua whakapae a D'Astier i mua me nga Allies ki te awhina i te whakaekenga.) Ko nga hoa o D'Astier, ko Abbé Cordier me Master-Sergeant Sabatier (he kaiwhakaako French i te puni OSS-SOE i Algiers), i kawe muna a Henri mai i Morocco ki te whare o d'Astier i Algiers. Heoi, i whakakahoretia e Darlan raua ko U.S. General Eisenhower te whakaaro. I kohurutia a Darlan e Fernand Bonnier de La Chapelle, he mema pro-Orléanist o te French Resistance, i te 24 o Tihema 1942.