Word: marshallizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Decision. Years ago Nikolai Nikolayevich Voronov, Chief Marshal of Red Artillery, a giant of a man with the soul of a great professional soldier, had staked his reputation and his country's fate on the cannon. German generals, whom he would ultimately fight, went in for newer-fangled things. They built their army around the team of tank and plane...
Voronov became Marshal of Artillery, journeyed to the Kremlin to receive the platinum Order of Suvorov. At a crowded Kremlin banquet, Stalin toasted him with vodka. (A U.S. official took one look at Voronov, whispered: "What football team did he play...
...first time the Russian man-in-the-street knew what Voronov looked like. One photograph showed him receiving his medal from small, bearded President Mikhail Kalinin, and smiling self-consciously, like a boy in his first long pants. Another showed him questioning beaten Field Marshal Friedrich von Paulus in a bare room near Stalingrad. On Moscow's Kuznetsky Most, an enterprising art gallery exhibited his portrait in oil-blue eyes, bulbous nose, big, friendly mouth, heavy jowls...
...Weary Ones. Mussolini's abdication caught Allied political advisers with their brief cases down. There was no plan, either political or military, to turn such a development to account. Hasty conferences followed with some of the King's and the Marshal's emissaries. The armistice was signed, but its announcement was withheld to coincide with a proposed airborne invasion of Rome and the beachhead landing at Salerno. The Germans moved quickly. They prevented the airborne venture by disarming vastly superior numbers of Italians to whom the Allies had looked for help, then concentrated everything available at Salerno...
...Allies held Salerno, but they also had on their hands the King and Marshal Badoglio. The Italian fleet came over. Militarily the Allies gained some advantage by having Italian troops help out as dock workers, as railway and bridge guards. But the Allied command miscalculated when it expected the Italian armies -beaten, demoralized and wanting only to go home to their families-to be useful as combat troops. They, like the people of Italy, wanted only peace and food...