Word: marshallizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...three weeks Field Marshal Fritz Erich von Manstein tried to blunt the salient with the flesh of his men. Vatutin's army, grimy with the dust of the 350 miles it had covered since last October, beat off the desperate attacks. Last week the hour struck...
Hard-driving Vatutin himself was not there. Moscow said he was sick. But his place was taken by one of the world's topmost field generals-stocky, aggressive Marshal Georgy Zhukov, fresh from his victory at Korsun, where ten Nazi divisions met their end last month...
Three of southern Italy's antiroyalist parties proposed to call a ten-minute strike in Naples last week. Object: to protest once more against the British-U.S. alliance with dilapidated little King Vittorio Emanuele III and Marshal Pietro Badoglio. Specifcally, Italian antiFascists felt that Winston Churchill had let them down again in his recent declaration of Allied policy. Said Count Carlo Sforza : "In London they seem so busy mistrusting antiFascism that they forget . . . thousands of Fascists . . . eager to stab Britain and the U.S.A. in the back...
...Recent Moscow gossip said Rokossovsky had been retired after the 1937 Army purge, returned to active service in 1941 after a plea to Stalin by Talent-scout Marshal Boris Shaposhnikov, Chief of Army Staff...
...army counterpart (of which the Army reputedly takes a dim view) would make Chief of Staff George Marshall and Air Forces' "Hap" Arnold five-star generals (equals British field marshal...