Word: marshallized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hailed the political measures of the Soviet Communist party from the de-Stalinization program down to the ouster of Marshal Georgi Zhukov...
Early this month, first stopping off for a talk with Khrushchev in the Crimea, Marshal Zhukov boarded the cruiser Kuibyshev for a long-planned visit to Yugoslavia and Albania. Clad in rough green hunting suit, he went shooting mountain goats with Tito (he bagged four, Tito one). Though Tito took the step of establishing diplomatic relations with East Germany while he was in the country, Zhukov seemed unconcerned about such political matters. In his one big speech he boasted of "our first-class modern arms, including atomic and hydrogen weapons . . . the intercontinental ballistic rocket." Barging slowly through Albania, he inspected...
...Saturday his TU-104 brought him back to Moscow's Vnukovo Airport, where Marshal Malinovsky and other armed forces officials-but no high-ranking Communists-were on hand to meet him. Six hours later TASS issued its bulletin. Fifty minutes after that Radio Moscow broadcast the report as the 15th item in its evening news program...
Slipped Pretense. But Russia kept the drums of war rolling. Pointedly, the Kremlin named Marshal Konstantin Rokossovsky, "the hero of Stalingrad" and former Red viceroy of Poland, to command Russian troops on the Turkish frontier, and announced that "atomic maneuvers" had been conducted. (The West retaliated with an announcement that NATO had decided to hold land, sea and air exercises on Turkey's "southwestern coast," i.e., in the direction of Syria, beginning this week...
...years ago London sent out one of its finest soldiers as Governor of Cyprus with orders to hold the island at all costs as a base for British forces in the Middle East. Doughty Field Marshal Sir John Harding did the job with soldierly ruthlessness. But, the chastening experience of Suez destroyed all thought of a reasserted British dominance in the area, and Cyprus was no longer essential to British strategists. Last week Her Majesty's government announced that in December Harding will be replaced by Sir Hugh Foot, 50, now Governor of Jamaica...