Word: marshallizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Presumably Alexander, Wilson and their generals had planned soundly enough, but there had also been some sound and speedy counterplanning by Nazi Field Marshal Kesselring, who held firm at Cassino and hustled in reserves from northern Italy, France and the Balkans to ring the beach...
...Marshal Badoglio's rule, previously restricted to the Adriatic heel of Italy, was extended to all of these areas, with the following provisos: 1) the Italian administration, both central and local, must be by men of good faith, sympathetic to the Allies; 2) this temporary step involves no Allied commitment to the Marshal or to King Vittorio Emanuele III after the capture of Rome; 3) the Italian armistice continues, subjecting the Badoglio government to military control if necessary...
Resolve and Dilemma. A message smuggled from Rome to Bari, and signed by representatives of the six parties, gave an account of guerrilla activities, of sabotage and strikes organized by the underground Italian Committee of Liberation in Nazi-occupied territory, complained bitterly that "in this fight, the Government [of Marshal Badoglio] is not participating." Count Sforza accused the Marshal of removing secondary figures but protecting those principally responsible for Fascism's misdeeds. He concluded: "To save Italy, the King and his most important accomplices must be eliminated...
...were united. Not until Vittorio Emanuele III abdicates can Italy get even a provisional democratic government representing the parties at the Bari Congress. If the Bari resolutions are to be more than words, two things must happen: 1) the U.S. and Britain must turn away from the King and Marshal Badoglio; 2) the apathetic Italian masses, not all of whom love the Allies, must be roused to an interest in democracy as intense as that of the men at Bari...
...Navy's project for giving more rank to top U.S. commanders, which sank when General George Marshall refused to consider becoming the first U.S. field marshal, was floated again last week. In both houses of Congress bills were introduced to give Army and Navy top-flighters equivalent rank with their British opposite numbers...