Word: dentz
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Dates: during 1941-1941
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...record, it did not seem last week that Vichy would have much trouble replacing General Huntziger. Likely successor: General Henri Ferdinand Dentz, onetime Commander in Chief in Syria, a good friend to the Axis...
...From the files of General Henri Fernand Dentz, former Vichy commander in Syria who was sent home last week, the British took telegrams which proved beyond question that Vichy had collaborated with the German Army. One telegram, signed by Minister of War General Charles Huntziger, read...
...polish. Inside, in the reception room, besides the conquering Allied generals waited 20-odd foreign consuls; native political leaders; sheiks in wimples; religious dignitaries from the country's many Moslem and Christian sects. They waited in vain for Admiral Pierre Victor Gabriel Gouton (acting for General Henri Fernand Dentz, Vichy's High Commissioner) to come out and say goodby...
...General Dentz did not attend the farewell party. He was up the coast at Tripoli, superintending the evacuation of his troops, presumably glad to go back to France with a whole hide. According to U.P.'s Harold Peters, who was in Beirut during the whole campaign, the General had to change his residence every night because of popular feeling against...
...take over all war materials (save personal weapons), public utilities, communications, arsenals, harbor installations and airfields. But all prisoners are to be released and Vichy troops were given their choice of repatriation, joining the Free French, or staying on in Syria. Of the 33,000 men under General Dentz, it is reported that about 14,000 (almost all his white soldiers) will be repatriated via Turkey...