Word: marshallizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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During the Communist siege of Taiyuan, Marshal Yen Hsi-Shan, leader of the Nationalist forces, arranged to have TIME Pacific parachuted to him along with the ammunition supplied by chartered planes. In Tokyo, General Douglas MacArthur reads TIME, as does Emperor Hirohito, after his secretary translates...
...rumble of moving furniture came again last week from the blank-walled Soviet fortress. This time it was a brief official announcement that Marshal Nikolai Bulganin, 53, had been "relieved of his duties" as Minister of Armed Forces and replaced in that post by Marshal Alexander Vasilevsky (also 53). Again speculation buzzed through the free world. What did this rumble mean...
...ALAMEIN TO THE RIVER SANGRO (192 pp.) - Field Marshal Montgomery -Dutton...
British Field Marshal Montgomery fought and won his battles by the book. His own accounts of how he did it are written for soldiers, military historians and armchair strategists. Normandy to the Baltic was Monty's cool, professional account of his considerable part in engineering the defeat of the German armies on the Continent. Now he has backtracked in time and completed his story of World War II with El Alamein to the River Sangro, a brief, coldly competent blueprint of his strategy in North Africa, Sicily and Italy...
Introductions of the speakers were made by William J. Richard, Jr. '49, newly-elected First Marshal of the class of 1949, who presided over the entire meeting...