Word: marshallizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...London (via the U.S.) with her Prime Minister husband. Then came word from Auckland that New Zealand's Prime Minister, able Scot-born Peter Fraser, was on "the eve of his departure." No word came from Pretoria, South Africa, but no such council would be complete without Field Marshal Jan Christiaan Smuts, the British Commonwealth's elder statesman...
...ship crashed 20 yards from the inspection party and skidded into a ditch, scraping the bombs along the rough ground. Among the brass hats who hit the dirt and hugged it were Air Chief Marshal Sir Charles Portal, Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder, Air Marshal Sir Arthur Coningham and Air Vice Marshal Harry Broadhurst. Said the philosophical pilot, emerging from the wreckage...
Thus opportunity knocks for Marshal Zhukov. But the question whether he can force the Carpathians depends on how much momentum is left in the Russian wave. In general, Russian tactics is to plunge ahead - as the armies usually do when they come to a river barrier. If they do the same in the face of mountains (which they have rarely met before in this war), this week may put to the proof the relative exhaustion of the retreating Germans and advancing Russians...
Cleaning Up. This week, after several days of inactivity (probably waiting for supplies to catch up), Marshal Konev's Central Ukrainian Army pushed across the Prut River and resumed its southward and westward march, narrowing the Nazi escape corridor from the Ukraine and at the same time mopping up Bessarabia and penetrating Rumania proper...
When Field Marshal Wavell wanted to harry the Japanese, he remembered Ethiopia, sent for Wingate, made him a Brigadier, gave him a free hand to become the Lawrence of Burma...