Word: marshallizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Waning Suspicion? After months of pulling & hauling, Yugoslavia's Communist Marshal Josip (Tito) Broz agreed to let some 80 UNRRA officials supervise distribution of UNRRA food, medicines, etc. in Partisan Yugoslavia. The negotiations were between UNRRA and Tito spokesmen, but everyone concerned (including UNRRA's men waiting in Bari, Italy for permission to cross the Adriatic) knew that the question was a test of Soviet intentions at the working level...
...been Marshal Pétain's counselor and Vichy's foremost apologist. On his lapel he still wore Marshal Pétain's badge. "I do not fear facing a firing squad," he cried. "If I had to do it again, I would." He retracted nothing, not even his 1941 words-"De Gaulle is a traitor who commands the scum of the world." He thumped the ledge of the prisoners' dock, proclaimed himself a "patriot," read a seven-hour political harangue against every act of the Third Republic. The court listened wearily...
Barring the possible existence on earth of undetected saints and major prophets, about the most important person in the world last week was Joseph Vissarionovitch Djugashvili. He was better known to the world as Joseph Stalin, Marshal and chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics...
There was immense admiration, too, for the skillful powering of diplomacy with military might which had enabled the Russians within five months to knock out of the war four Axis satellites (Rumania, Bulgaria, Finland and Hungary) and, with the help of Marshal Tito's Partisans, to liberate most of Yugoslavia and force the German withdrawal from Greece...
Britain had staked out a formal claim to interest in the affairs of Yugoslavia. She still recognized King Peter. But the Yugoslavs seemed about ready to jettison their King. In Belgrade the Government was dominated by Marshal Tito, a Communist...