Word: marshalling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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David Lloyd George. Grief had welled up in every loyal Briton's heart, and with good cause. The Empire was laying to rest her greatest soldier, the Scotchman who commanded all her armies in France from 1915 until the final victory, Field Marshal Earl Haig (TIME...
...harvest which Death reaped, last week, in striking down at 66 perhaps the greatest soldier-Scotchman, Colonel - Douglas Haig, first Earl Haig (British creation), but 29th Laird of Bemerside (Scotch), and, from 1915 onward, Commander-in-Chief of all Britannia's armies in France, famed as "Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig." Men will remember and revere him for Scotch virtues. The core of his unalterable concept of how to win the War was to husband large reserves of less experienced troops and forge their mettle, year after year in minor actions and intensive training behind the lines. Such thrift...
...although writing is my business, I still find myself, after hours of thought, unable to marshal words that will convey what is in my heart...
...small number, even when compared to China's estimated population: 319,000,000. Last week Occidental charities appealed for funds wherewith to appease 10,000,000 stomachs in western Shantung and southern Chihli, where the crops have failed. Utter despair looms from the fact that rapacious Marshal Chang Tsung-chang, odious despot of Shantung, has already seized and will continue to seize for his troops a lion's share of all food despatched to those starving...
...potent, perambulating Marshal Feng Yu-hsiang, who moves constantly about China with a mobile haste, assembled his generals in Chenchow, Honan Province, last week. To them he read a riot act which amounted to the warning that he will positively capture Peking, next spring, and that thereafter "China will not stand further unfair treatment from other countries...