Word: marshallizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chief lion-baiting took place in Boston. Some wag invited a detail of British tars to march in the St. Patrick's parade. This aroused the bellicose South Boston Citizens Association, the parade sponsors. "Very regrettable misunderstanding," snorted Parade Marshal John Walsh. "There'll be no foreign armed forces parading here." The British did not march. (Boston Irish also celebrate March 17 as Evacuation Day, in memory of the departure of the British redcoats...
Gestapo's Choice. None could say for certain which or how many Rumanians Prince Stirbey spoke for. Anyone could see that he would not be at large in a warring world without: 1) Puppet-Dictator Marshal Ion ("Red Dog") Antonescu's permission; 2) the Gestapo's connivance. Some could see a telltale in the way the Gestapo detained Princess Elise a week at the Bulgarian border as a British subject, then inexplicably let her follow her father to Ankara. The Princess' husband, Major Edward Boxhall, now in the War Office in London, formerly represented armament-makers...
...Army of Liberation" was coming from Soviet Russia. There was not too much reason to expect that the call can be heeded by nine million Czechoslovaks who, in chains and humiliation, are forced to produce huge quantities of weapons for their German masters. There was some doubt whether Soviet Marshal Georgy Zhukov's forces will be, unequivocally, an army of liberation. But all the way from London to Russia, throughout the human mass of tension and torture that is Europe, there is little doubt that Czechoslovakia's experience with liberation will answer the one fundamental question: What...
...Marshal Ivan Konev's army fought its way across the Bug, raced over 60 muddy miles in two days, crossed the Dniester with scarcely a change in pace. Said a British newsman in Moscow of ex-Lumberjack Konev: "He has done the unexpected, the unbelievable, the impossible...
...Marshal Georgy Zhukov, stalled in Tarnopol's ruins, struck on the northern flank. In a cold spring rain, one column crossed the bloated Ikwa to take the 950-year-old fortress of Dubno, in old Poland. Another column slithered up a hill to take the fortress of Krzemieniec. From both, roads now led straight...