Word: marshal
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...Prime Minister replied that he hoped that Marshal Stalin would let him finish his illustration in regard to Hong Kong . . . Under paragraph 3 [of the veto formula] Great Britain in fact would have the right of their veto to stop all action . . . Great Britain would not be required to return Hong Kong unless they felt this should be done...
...Marshal Stalin, the cobbler's son who was on the way to inheriting a quarter of the earth, proposed a toast to the Prime Minister of Great Britain: "The bravest governmental figure in the world . . . fighting friend, and a brave man." Winston Churchill, the pink-cheeked giant of Western statesmen, who was about to be ousted from power, raised glass to Marshal Stalin, who, "in peace no less than in war, will continue to lead his people from success to success." Stalin drank to the health of the President of the U.S.. "the chief forger of the instruments...
...President," said the transcript of a private Stalin-Roosevelt conversation, "said he would now tell the marshal something indiscreet, since he would not say it in front of Prime Minister Churchill-namely, that the British for two years have had the idea of artificially building up France into a strong power ... He said the British were a peculiar people and wished to have their cake...
...Stalin himself did not think Churchill had much to worry about. "Marshal Stalin remarked that he did not believe the Labor Party would ever be successful in forming a government in England...
...President said he had been very much struck by the extent of German destruction in the Crimea, and therefore he was more bloodthirsty in regard to the Germans than he had been a year ago. And he hoped that Marshal Stalin would again propose a toast to the execution of 50,000 officers of the German army...