Word: marshallizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Westward in Italy Field Marshal Albert Kesselring still held out against an Allied attack that boiled along the length of the Gothic Line from the Ligurian Sea to the Adriatic, still kept his army intact, more than a year after the landing at Salerno...
...Hoof and Wheel. The Japanese were there in force and they were mobile, ahorse, afoot and truck-fed. They could marshal superiority in numbers at any point they chose. They had a fifth column of diabolical proportions. In Kweilin, some said, General Kenji Doihara himself was directing the fifth column, but they were wrong. Behind the elbow of every soldier stood the fear of a traitor; the fifth column was among the refugee flood on southbound trains, collecting information, firing buildings, shooting at sight...
...like Hamlet's father's ghost, the Fiume issue had come back to walk Italy's night a certain term. It was the same old problem. But this time Istria was claimed by Marshal Tito. The ports of Trieste and Fiume and the big naval base at Pola would give Yugoslavia control of the Adriatic Sea, flanking Italy from Venice almost to Brindisi...
Five for Four. There is another reason for the change. In almost all the other armies and navies of the world there is a rank equivalent to five American stars. When U.S. and British officers confer, the American is inevitably outstarred-and sensitive about it. In Europe Field Marshal Montgomery outranks General Eisenhower, who commands...
What to call the new rank? Stimson generously left that up to Congress. "General of the Armies" is held sacred to ailing, 84-year-old John J. Pershing, for whom the title was created by special Act. "Marshal" is a title to which George Marshall might personally object. "Admiral of the Fleet" might do for a five-star sailor...