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...first time since the death of Marshal de Lattre de Tassigny early in 1952, the French carried the Indo-China war to the enemy...
...control is ruthless: when a group of high army officers, led by Marshal Tukhachevsky, tried to throw off Chekist control in 1937, they were liquidated, along with some 30,000 regular career officers. Behind every high Red army commander in World War II stood a Chekist with the power to veto military orders. The system paid off: Chekist disregard for life accounted for some of the Red army's more daring and costly victories. With the war's end, many of the Red army's greatest marshals were not soldiers, but cops. Such a one is goateed...
Gunsmoke (Sat. 9 p.m.. CBS). Adult western series about a frontier marshal...
...Marshal Sir Basil Embry, 51, will take over, under Juin, the Allied Air Forces of Central Europe. Sir Basil, a jovial, able daredevil, was shot down in France in World War II, escaped by knocking out three German guards, walked and cycled across France in workman's clothes, watched Hitler enter Paris, in all was captured three times, escaped three times. Once, posing as an Irish patriot, he was challenged to speak Gaelic, fooled the Germans by a flood of Urdu, which he had learned in India. Back in combat, Embry took on a series of missions, once dive...
Photographers covering Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito at his summer headquarters on Brioni Island in the Adriatic snapped him sitting in the sun with a tanned and traveled visitor, Adlai Stevenson. After lunch and talk, Stevenson pushed on to Greece to pick up son Borden, thence to Rome to meet son John Fell...