Word: marshalling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...During the week, President Coolidge, Premier Mussolini, Marshal Foch, General Pershing, Edward of Wales, Thomas A. Edison, Foreign Minister Stresemann of Germany, Admiral Lord Beatty of Britain, and many another, appeared in the East Room of the White House and made speeches?in a special Movietone performance...
...politics that the only combative weapons left to their enemies are assassination and revolution. Both statesmen have successfully spurred their countrymen to strides and leaps in material progress. They are the fashion plates aped by all modern personal autocrats. Examples: President Mustafa Kemal Pasha of Turkey; Dictator Marshal Josef Pilsudski of Poland; Dictator General Carlos Ibanez of Chile...
...Soviet Russia. Their famed Chiang Kaishek, onetime Nationalist generalissimo and conqueror of half China said: "I intend to exert my full strength to bring peace within the Nationalist territories in order to enable the re-oranization of the Nationalist government and provide for the active resumption of warfare against Marshal Chang Tso-lin [Dictator of North China], who must be eliminated before China will become peaceful...
After luncheon? at which the Dictator appeared as a Polish general with sword and spurs? both statesmen settled quietly to the business which had brought Marshal Pilsudski to Geneva; the Polish-Lithuanian frontier crisis (TIME, Dec. 12). Already M. Briand was in confidential possession of all the facts. On previous days he had several times received the Prime Minister of Lithuania, stocky, spiky-haired Professor Augustine Valdemaras. There had been a four-hour session of the League Council at which the issue had been argued hotly back and forth between M. Valdemaras and August Zaleski, Foreign Minister of Poland...
Thus the scene, and upon it Marshal Pilsudski must make his inevitably melodramatic appearance with good effect? not the reverse. During the afternoon and most of the evening JJ. Briand coached and perhaps coaxed the Marshal. Next morning the impromptu melodrama was played out at a secret session of the League Council. But details soon leaked...