Word: marshallizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Soldier Dill, now armed with a Field Marshal's baton, was destined never to reach India. A topflight job developed for which he was Churchill's inevitable choice-head of the British Joint Staff Mission to Washington, set up immediately after Pearl Harbor...
...Field Marshal Dill was a fast worker, but he knew no hours. To force him to rest, George Marshall took him to his home in Virginia for weekends, sometimes took him canoeing on the Potomac. When the second Quebec Conference was called, General Dill's physician forbade him to go. He went anyhow...
...November Revolution speech this week, Marshal Stalin declared that "it is not enough to win the war but we must make any future war impossible," that the United Nations must create a special organization "immediately to avert aggressions" in the postwar world...
Palestine's new High Commissioner, Field Marshal Lord Gort, drove ceremonially through Jerusalem's tortuous, tipped-up streets. Crowds shouted (in Hebrew) "Shalom"; (in Arabic) "Salaam." Both words meant peace. But the words were only words: the Holy Land was tense again with trouble. Jews and Arabs had given up open fighting for the duration. But through the Palestine censorship, tightest in the Middle East, trickled tales of Jewish terrorism against the British...
Although pickers made good money (12½? a box; a crack picker can make $22 a day), there were still not enough of them when the harvest started. The Government sent in 1,000 German prisoners of war, from the late Marshal Rommel's Afrika Korps. The P.O.W.s lived in special camps, were paid 80? a day in scrip if they met the easy standard of 65 boxes...