Word: marshalling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Than the late Field Marshal Sir Henry Hughes Wilson, assassinated on the steps of his London home by two Sinn Feiners on July 22, 1922, there has rarely been a soldier whose sarcasm has been so biting, whose criticism so penetrative, whose mind so outspoken, whose ego so self-exalted...
Last week, through the medium of Major General Sir C. E. Caldwell, two volumes were published in London entitled Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson, His Life and Diaries. As was to be expected, their contents were plentifully interlarded with vigorous attacks on the statesmen of the War and armistice periods, most of whom are still celebrities living in shadow of fame...
...criticisms might have been worse; for General Caldwell admits that it was found advisable "to omit some passages" because the Field Marshal was "so outspoken." And this capacity for plain, frank statements was occompanied by a no less marked habit of blunt, crude speech, so much so that General Caldwell says that "it has been thought desirable to exclude some forcible expressions concerning individuals which find a place in these records...
This is quoted by Sir Henry to show how Marshal Joffre got temporary carte blanche for the prosecution...
...Field Marshal Lord Kitchener: "His ridiculous and preposterous army of 25 corps is the laughing stock of every soldier in Europe," adding that it took the Germans 40 years to make an army of 25 corps...