Word: marshalled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Some pungent excerpts from the forthcoming Triumph in the West, Volume II of the war diaries of Field Marshal Lord Alanbroolce, Chief of Britain's Imperial General Staff during World War II, were published in Canada by Maclean's Magazine. Items...
...reputation as a calculator is gone with the wind. His promises are the gambler's last throw." "There have been a number of personal attacks on me," said Gaitskell, "but I don't complain." "I complain," Mrs. Gaitskell piped up. In his best parade-ground manner, Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery, no candidate but deep in the battle, barked: "Anybody who votes Labor should be locked up in a lunatic asylum...
...Among the class of 1929 graduates: Air Force Vice Chief of Staff Curtis LeMay; General Samuel E. Anderson, chief of the Air Materiel Command; retired Brigadier General La Verne (''Blondie") Saunders, a hero of World War II; Major General Haydon L. Boatner, the Army's Provost Marshal General; Lieut. General Roscoe Wilson, Air Force Deputy Chief of Staff; the late Major General Robert F. Travis; Lieut. General Francis ("Butch") Griswold, vice chief of SAC; Lieut. General Roger Ramey (ret.), former commander of the Fifth Air Force in Japan; Lieut. General William Tunner, MATS commander; Lieut. General John...
...along with the shakeup in the civilian hierarchy went one in the army. Liu's old opponent, Marshal Peng Teh-huai, was dismissed as Defense Minister, as were two of his top aides, because they had protested the use of troops in labor battalions. Into the chief of staff's post went General Lo Jui-ching (TIME cover, March 5, 1956), bloody-minded former boss of the secret police, who could be depended upon to ferret out any more "incorrect thinking" among the military...
...Asia had made excuses for Peking. But with the savage repression of the Tibetan revolt, and deliberate provocation of India, Southeast Asians were taking seriously the threat of "yellow imperialism." Burma, which had formerly refused U.S. aid, now recoiled at the thought of loans from Peking. Thailand's Marshal Sarit had placed an embargo on imports from Red China and Malaya closed down two Red Chinese banks as centers of smuggling and espionage. And though India's Nehru, true to his nature, continued to vacillate, hostility toward Red China was rampant among the Indian masses...