Word: marshalled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Soviet Military Governor Marshal Vassily Sokolovsky made his contribution to the occasion by taking "administrative measures" against a German newspaper that criticized the planned lavishness of Princess Elizabeth's wedding in the face of European hunger...
...Moslem Karachi, Pakistan Governor General Mohamed Ali Jinnah raged at the news. He ordered Pakistan troops, under British Lieut. General D. D. Gracey, into Kashmir. The order was not carried out, for in New Delhi British Field Marshal Sir Claude Auchinleck threatened to withdraw British officers from Pakistan's Army...
...Marshal Georgi Zhukov. The name Zhukov is about as common in Russia as Jones...
...Trail. From the moment González took office, he suspected his Communist allies. Acting on a tip from Buenos Aires, Government agents put a watch on Yugoslav Minister to Argentina, General Ljubomir Ilic, who came to represent Marshal Tito at González' inauguration. When Andres Cunja, a Yugoslav long resident in Chile, was named chief of the Tito diplomatic mission in Santiago, agents followed him, too. González kept quiet about what they reported...
Tower Duty. Eventually, Sir Osbert persuaded his father to let him give up horsemanship; he entered the Grenadier Guards. Great Morning is dedicated to one of Sir Osbert's friends and contemporaries in the Guards, then "a charming and elegant young man," now Field Marshal Viscount Alexander of Tunis (and Canada's Governor General). Most of his other Guardsman friends were dead before 1916. Happily stationed in London, resplendently uniformed and detailed to duty at the romantic Tower or at Buckingham Palace, young Sitwell in his free evenings discovered the world of fashion. Heady excitements were...