Word: marshalled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Danzig problem was in the air; 2) that Danzig might be part of a general European settlement. Count Ciano went back to Rome. The Premier of Yugoslavia returned to Belgrade. The Regent of Hungary made an unexpected "private" visit to Berlin. Poland's line remained-in Marshal Smigly-Rydz's artful words-peace could not mean "take" for nations, "give" for others. And all over Europe the 8,000,000 men under arms lined up like marksmen preparing to shoot at a ghost, training their guns against radio waves, trying to surround words in newspapers...
...even the Germans, only other people to celebrate the anniversary of the World War, thought up such a metaphor to describe the conflict. But Marshal Smigly-Rydz made it clear that it was not war, but Polish independence, that made the date memorable, warned against the use of force in Danzig, mentioned the military agreements with Poland's friends, and said peace for Poles could never mean "take" for one nation, and "give" for another. Day after he spoke the Danzig Senate was reported to have accepted the Polish offer to negotiate...
...southwest of Paris across the Seine, protecting the German right flank. But in the uncertainty of movement and position, Kluck lost direction, veered toward Paris instead of circling southwest to envelop it. Sensing the significance of the German right wing's undershot, in the evening of August 25, Marshal Joffre's tactical adviser, a smooth, silent, chubby little 42-year-old officer named Maurice Gamelin had written out Joffre's historic Instruction No.2: "Having been unable to carry out the offensive maneuver originally planned, future operations will be conducted in such a way as to reconstruct...
...riens, because he wanted to see some rough service, and three years with the Army's Geographical Service, because he liked to paint landscapes in water color, survey and map. In 1899 he was admitted to the War College, where he studied tactics under Lieut. Colonel, later Marshal Foch, who particularly noticed his qualities. He graduated in 1902 with the commendation of "très bien...
...hear opera and ancient music. If he stays home he reads. His library is stocked principally with philosophy, folklore, political and military history and treatises on his other old favorite: map making. He has few friends, but one of his best, oddly enough, is that other able professional, Marshal Pietro Badoglio of Italy. On his 55th birthday General Gamelin married. He and his wife, who is as neutral-toned as her husband, have no children. Madame la Générale enjoys going to maneuvers...