Word: marshallized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Saint Cyr, declaring war on virtually everybody who opposed him. Cleaving first to Pétain after the fall of France in World War II, he later switched to the Allied side and became the able battlefield commander of the Free French forces in Italy. As the only living Marshal of France in 1952, he publicly blamed the United States for France's troubles in North Africa and Indo-China, and threatened to lead his nation personally out of the United Nations if Washington did not mend its ways. Back in Paris as NATO's Commander for Central...
Stripped of his French army jobs and officially spanked by the NATO Council in a resolution condemning "the public utterances of Marshal Alphonse Juin," the obstreperous old soldier went right on saying his say with uninhibited vigor. Strongly opposing any kind of liberal policy toward the rebels in North Africa, 67-year-old Juin last month proposed in a magazine article that NATO itself take on the job of quelling the trouble in Algeria. The proposition was received at SHAPE headquarters with the utmost coolness...
After the round of handshaking and back-slapping that followed, Tito presented Marshal Zhukov with the Yugoslav Order of Freedom-the first non-Yugoslav ever so honored...
...London branch of the society is headed by Marshal Sir John Slessor, former Chief of the Air Staff...
...built overlooking Hvitträsk (White Lake), 18 miles outside Helsinki. After he married a sister of one of his partners, Sculptress Loja Gesellius, they turned it into a center of crafts and architecture. Among the stream of visitors and guests: Russian Novelist Maxim Gorky, Critic Julius Meier-Graefe, Marshal Carl Gustaf Emil von Mannerheim, Composer Jean Sibelius...