Word: chief
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...accused himself denied knowledge of atrocities, such as the use of gas wagons painted like carnival caravans which were employed by SS troops for mass executions. "Obviously some people acted differently from the way I expected them to act," he snapped. "A commander in chief can control his subordinates only to a very limited extent...
...arms aid. By last week it was clear that such worries were at least partly justified. At least one top officer in the French army had been guilty of gross carelessness, or worse, in the handling of top-secret military information. The officer was General Georges Marie Joseph Revers, chief of the French general staff, who a fortnight ago was summarily sacked by the French cabinet...
Erect, soldierly Georges Revers had had a brilliant military career. As chief of staff and the army's top officer, he had won the respect and trust of professional soldiers of Britain and the U.S. But he had a great weakness: he liked to dabble in political intrigue, often used professional informers to get inside stories on matters of interest...
...Premier Georges Bidault's cabinet made no public charges when it removed Revers. Instead, it placed him "at the disposal of the Prime Minister," and there was even talk that General Revers would get a new job, probably with Western Union headquarters at Fontainebleau. To succeed Revers as chief of staff, Bidault picked General Clement Blanc, a logistics expert who had directed the re-equipment of Free French forces in Africa with U.S. materials, and had served as General de Lattre de Tassigny's No. 2 man at Western Union headquarters. The French press has called General Blanc...
...family. Dingaan's brother and predecessor, the frightful Chief Tchaka, slaughtered an estimated 1,000,000 fellow blacks in genocidal wars. He liquidated women as useless, mourned his mother's death by killing 7,000 followers, was himself murdered by Dingaan...