Word: georgies
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...recent meetings of the Control Council, zonal government showed at its worst. Marshal Georgi Zhukov calmly declared that while he really trusted the British, he could not understand the presence in the British zone of entire German Wehrmacht units under German officers. Field Marshal Sir Bernard Law Montgomery retorted testily that Zhukov's facts were inaccurate. The question was shelved, leaving a bad taste all around...
...Associated Press in which he defiantly proclaimed himself a "true paladin of my Führer" and declared that, if he had the choice, he would do the whole thing over again. Generally, his courtroom poise was much better than it had been twelve years ago, when Communist Georgi Dimitroff made a fool of him at the Reichstag fire trial...
...Russians last week staged a boosters' get-together. At Karlshorst, some 40 German administrators of Germany's Russian zone discussed progress and problems with 30 Soviet colleagues. There were three days of dinners, concerts, ballets and pep-talks. With Babbittical zeal, Marshal Georgi Zhukov strove to show the delegates that theirs was the greatest little zone in all of Germany. Said he: ". . . Our zone will, by virtue of its own achievements . . . command respect and assume a position of leadership...
Among other possible heirs to all or part of Stalin's power: ¶ Marshal Georgi Zhukov, 52, Stalin's deputy in Berlin, is the most important of the "Counts of the Marches" who guard Russia's borders...
...Marshal Georgi K. Zhukov was entertaining General of the Army Dwight D. Eisenhower at a lavish Hohenzollern palace in Potsdam. Sergeant Harold Kempner, a Russian-speaking Philadelphian on the staff of the A.M.G.'s weekly Grooper, crashed the gate and accosted Zhukov...