Word: marshallizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...assorted world notables, all taken from the covers of TIME. In the center, in large letters, was writ ten: "Who Are They?" Britain's Princess Margaret was there, side by side with Russia's Police Boss Lavrenty Beria, Hollywood's Gregory Peck, Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito, and the theater's redoubtable Tallulah Bankhead. At week's end, one of the 200 faces had been changed. The features of Cardinal Mindszenty of Hungary had been replaced by those of Radio Comic Fred Allen...
...Balkans buzzed with ominous reports that Russia was massing troops on the Yugoslav border, Stalin's archfoe, Marshal Tito, was enjoying a quiet holiday at his island stronghold of Brioni, in the upper Adriatic. There he received LIFE Photographer John Phillips, who had covered Tito and his partisans during the war. Phillips cabled...
...single-voiced Soviet press, savage denunciations of the "Tito clique" crowded attacks on the "Anglo-American warmongers" off the front page. A Red army paper said that Tito would suffer the same fate "as Hitler and Mussolini, only this time much quicker." Marshal Kliment Voroshilov, Soviet Deputy Premier and Stalin's longtime pal, called upon the Red faithful to rally together for the grand push against Yugoslavia. He also gave them a significant definition of what it means to be a good Communist. "A proletarian internationalist," said he, "is one who, without any conditions, openly and honestly ... is ready...
...Josip Broz Tito thought that Joseph Stalin had reached the top of his voice, he had heard nothing yet. Last week, amplifying earlier charges that Yugoslavia was mistreating Russian nationals residing in Yugoslavia, Moscow loosed a 3,000-word blast against Tito that was enough to make the marshal's formidable wolfhounds dive whimpering under the nearest...
Long before the sun was up one morning this week, three carloads of Syrian army officers rolled through the deserted streets of Damascus, stopped at the home of Syria's dictator, short, stumpy Husni Zaim. The officers awakened Marshal Zaim, told him he was under arrest. Then they sped to the home of bespectacled Premier Mohsen el Barazi, burst into his bedroom, took him from the house in his pajamas. Within the hour, a drumhead court-martial had sentenced both to death. As the sun rose, they were executed by a firing squad in the Mezze Prison...