Word: marshallizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...weeks the Germans had been throwing heavy counterattacks, in one of which they lost 300 tanks in three days, against Soviet Marshal Fedor Tolbukhin's forces between Lake Balaton and the Danube, in Hungary. From Lake Balaton to the Moravian Gate (northeastern entrance to mountain-girt Bohemia) they had 30 German and 20 Hungarian divisions. Fighting Marshal Tito's forces in Yugoslavia they had ten more. The only sane military explanation for this spreading-out of force was a desperate Nazi desire to keep the Allies away from those approaches to the bastion...
...Field Marshal Sir Harold Alexander, Allied commander in the Mediterranean, conferred with Marshals Tito and Tol-bukhin last month. That seemed to signal a concerted Allied drive in Italy, Yugoslavia and Hungary, possibly aiming at a common front from the head of the Adriatic to the Danube. Last week, forestalling a possible German sortie through the Moravian Gate against the flank of their northern armies, the Russians were attacking the gate themselves...
What's Cooking? It seemed clear that Field Marshal Montgomery was getting ready for multiple crossings in the north, and that the attacks would be spearheaded by Lieut. General Sir Miles Christopher Dempsey's British Second Army. In the House of Commons, War Secretary Sir James Grigg stated flatly that "our forces" were preparing to cross ''in force...
...tempo of Russian attack east of Berlin hung at a sullen, persistent roar. After a week's bitter fighting the Germans claimed that: 1) they still held the essential battlements of Küstrin, which Marshal Joseph Stalin had declared captured; 2) the battered keystones of their Oder River defense line still stood...
...Marshal Tito proclaimed a comprehensive national program: "Annihilation ... [of] the Fascist occupier . . . Quislings and traitors. . . . Free elections as soon as possible. . . . Democratic rights must be safeguarded and extended. The State's planned intervention in the organization and conduct of ... the entire economic life is ... an unconditional...