Word: marshalling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Police, last week, is the great "General Lord Byng of Vimy Ridge," or, less colloquially, Julian Hedworth George Byng, Baron Byng of Vimy, Viscount Byng of Vimy and of Thorpe le Soken, recently Governor General of His Majesty's Dominion of Canada (1921-26), and grandson of Field Marshal Sir John Byng who fought and conquered with the Duke of Wellington at Waterloo...
...affairs was stigmatized as "intolerable!" by peppery Baron Herbert Charles Onslow Plumer of Messines and of Bilton, who has been British High Commissioner to Palestine since 1925. He prescribed a remedy: more British troops. He had tested his prescriptions in 1918-19, when, with the rank of Field Marshal, he commanded the Second British Army occupying the German Rhineland. Methods which reduced Germans to submission ought to be good for Arabs...
...symbol of France is a spunky, militant, land-lubbing Cock; but for one day last week Frenchmen raised the three-spiked Trident of sea power. For once the name of "Admiral of the Fleet"*Henri Salaun loomed on a momentary par with that of Marshal Ferdinand Foch. The occasion was twofold: first a review of the Grand Fleet, off Havre, and second the inauguration, at Havre, of the new docks and deep water basin-a prodigious puddle capable of accommodating simultaneously the two largest ships in the world, the Majestic and Leviathan...
...Marshal Josef Pilsudski resigned, last week, as Prime Minister of Poland, then said to correspondents...
...escape was by resignation. . . . However, I told the President I should be available for service in critical times. The control of international Polish policies still remains in my hands." The Prime Minister of the new Cabinet, formed last week, is Dr. Kazimir Bartel, previously Vice-Prime Minister. Marshal Pilsudski continues to hold the War Ministry, remains de facto Dictator...