Word: marshallizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...again in Paris in 1936. De Gaulle was then a lieutenant colonel, Tukhachevsky the youngest (43) marshal in the Red Army and Vice Commissar for Defense. He had come to Paris to complete the Franco-Soviet mutual assistance treaty. At a gay reunion dinner he talked over old times at Ingolstadt with De Gaulle and other French Army...
...treason and shot. But not long before his death, Tukhachevsky had written a treatise on mechanization for the Red Army. In it he praised "the brilliant French military writer, De Gaulle." Now his friend De Gaulle, head of the French Government, was the honored guest of the biggest Soviet marshal...
From a five-line announcement on the back page of Moscow's Izvestia, Russians learned last week that Marshal Klementi ("Klim") Voroshilov, 63, had been "relieved of his duties as a member of the State Committee of Defense." Into his job stepped Nikolai Alexandrovich Bulganin, 49. Bulganin had risen slowly in the Soviet hierarchy. He had been a textile worker, organizer of city Soviets, mayor of Moscow, a member of the Supreme Soviet, vice chairman of the Council of People's Commissars. Neither a soldier nor a diplomat by training, he was both a general and Soviet representative...
...Juntas & a Constellation. Britain's disclaimer, Moscow's growl, and the fact that one subject of conversation between Marshal Stalin and General de Gaulle (see above) would almost certainly be Generalissimo Franco, gave importance for the first time to the anti-Franco forces now loudly concentrating against the dictator in Mexico and Europe. They included two juntas and a constellation of politicos ranging from extreme leftists to royalists. But each of the juntas and most of the individuals detested each other almost as much as they did Franco...
...bouncer, 4-Fer, was holding his own against four soldiers who had tried to take his taxi, when, he swore, another taxi drew up and Colonel Roosevelt stepped out, stopped the fight, told everyone to "scram." Huddle, bruised and breathing hard, filed a complaint with the Army Provost Marshal against the G.I.s, called Roosevelt a "taxi-commando, [who] acted like he was God Almighty...