Word: marshallizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Three meeting was in the wind. When it would be held was up to Marshal Stalin. But last week both Winston Churchill and Harry Truman gave unmistakable evidence that they thought it should be soon...
...spots in Europe where trouble between allies brewed. Trieste for a time was closest to actual battle. After Field Marshal Sir Harold Alexander issued a blistering statement denouncing Marshal Tito's occupation of the city, New Zealand troops followed the Yugoslav example and went about the streets with automatic rifles. North of Trieste Tito withdrew some troops to the defensible line of the Isonzo river (see map). The Yugoslavs moved their main headquarters back from Trieste, but showed no sign of relaxing their grip on the city. Lest it be cut off in case of fighting...
...this impression last week when he told the House of Commons : "It is our aim that the Germans should administer their country in obedience to Allied directions; we have no intention of undertaking the burden of administering Germany ourselves." Popular nominees for Eisenhower's British opposite number: Field Marshal Montgomery, with whom Churchill conferred last week, and Field Marshal Alexander, who was amply occupied in Yugoslavia (see The Nations...
...really decisive conference took place in late afternoon. It lasted only about 15 minutes. Present were Hitler, Martin Bormann, successor to Hess as the F&252hrer's personal representative, Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel and Colonel General Alfred Jodl. All others were sent away except the two stenographers...
...Jodl interjected that Germany still had some armies capable of action. He mentioned the Central Army Group under Field Marshal Schorner which was disposed south of Berlin in the direction of Dresden, and the Twelfth Army of General Wenck, a newly formed army which was to stand against the Americans on the Elbe. Perhaps, said Jodl, these armies could change the course of events around Berlin. Hitler evidenced little interest. He gave no orders, shrugged his shoulders and said: 'You do whatever you want...