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...ailment; in Marvejols, France. An honorary American citizen by virtue of his descent from La Fayette (and husband of Cincinnati-bred Margaret Rives Nichols), Old Statesman de Chambrun put in nearly half a century in the French government, is best remembered as the only Senator to vote against giving Marshal Petain dictatorial powers and establishing the sellout Vichy regime...
...vodka was flowing like the Volga at a Moscow garden party last week. Russia's goateed Defense Minister, Marshal Nikolai A. Bulganin, hopped merrily from one cluster of diplomats to another at the celebration of Indonesian Independence
...Down with war!" cried he. "I say that as a marshal of the Soviet Union and the commanding general of all the armed forces of the Soviet Union." (Actually, though a marshal, Bulganin is a politician who commands soldiers...
...involved, they could have demanded assistance from their NATO partners (including the U.S.). But Tito, who is not in NATO, would not have been committed to help Greece and Turkey if they became involved in NATO action away from home. So NATO itself objected. As one official put it, "Marshal Tito is trying to buy a dollar's worth of NATO protection for 50 cents." After much rewording, the pact now calls for all three members to meet and discuss effective means of rendering assistance in the event of an attack on one. In practice, Greece and Turkey will...
...tougher followers drove him half-crazy simply by knowing that he was incapable of being the man he pretended to be. When the Duce tried to conduct the Ethiopian war from his office chair, Marshal Badoglio only growled: "What fool in Rome is telegraphing this rubbish to me?" and curtly cabled back: "Leave me alone...