Word: marshal
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...time the Hungarians themselves may say, to nobody's comfort, what Field Marshal Mannerheim proudly said about his Finns: "Nobody gave us our liberty...
Twenty-four hours later, arriving in Belgrade on a good-will visit, Greek Prime Minister Constantine Karamanlis warmly clasped the proletarian paw of Marshal Tito. The inconsistency was more apparent than real: Greece's alliance with Communist Yugoslavia is designed to protect them both from Russian attack. Reaffirming Greek-Yugoslavian solidarity, Karamanlis admitted that the Balkan Pact which links Greece, Yugoslavia and Turkey is currently "sleeping"-and will continue to slumber until Turkey and Greece are able to settle their differences over Cyprus...
They offered him various heads on a platter, but held out on Marshal Rokossovsky because they were afraid of Russian reaction. Gomulka was unmoved. "You fear the Russians?" he said. ''It is only necessary to know how to handle them. I remember when in 1944 Comrade Bulganin, at that time Soviet military commander in Poland, arrived in Lublin and sent word that I should call on him immediately. I told the general, 'If the general is in such a hurry, let him come to me.' Imagine, he arrived some minutes later with a smile...
...Gomulka had his chance to get tough with the Russians a few weeks later when Moscow took umbrage at his cavalier firing of Marshal Rokossovsky. A delegation of the Soviet Party Presidium came flying into Warsaw and Khrushchev stepped out, arms flailing, shouting insults at the Poles. Gomulka was calm. When Khrushchev asked, "Who is that?" Gomulka replied, "It is I, Gomulka, the man you sent to jail." The Russians' coup de théâtre flopped because one of Gomulka's supporters had taken the precaution of arming the workers of the Zeran works, and another...
...jacaranda tree outside the courthouse at Nyeri, an old woman squatted, moodily scratching the vermin beneath her filthy rags. Inside, on trial for his life before a British judge and a jury of three Kikuyu elders from his native village, was her son, Dedan Kimathi, 36, self-styled Field Marshal, Knight Commander of the African Empire, President of the Parliament of Kenya and Commander in Chief of the Land Liberation Army, the man once feared through all Kenya as the leader of some 10,000 Mau Mau terrorists...