Word: marshallizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Russia. Marshal Joseph Stalin said: "Victory is near." The Red Army captured Kiev, the Ukraine's capital, ended the summer-&-fall fight for the Dnieper and began the winter battle for western Russia. In the Nevel sector to the north, the Red Army was within 40-odd miles of Poland; in the south, 130 miles from Poland...
Arrogant Field Marshal Walter von Reichenau, who captured Kiev in 1941, was not its first alien invader. For eleven centuries, men of the sword-Variags and Khazars, Tatars, Lithuanians and Poles -ravished the beautiful city. The proud conquerors became dust; Kiev, with its seven rolling hills, its glistening church domes, its banks towering above the Dnieper, survived. It sprawled on the border between the rich, black-soiled south and the forested north, and their wealth was the plasma which always revived...
...villa at Sorrento, Senator Benedetto Croce, philosopher, literary critic and anti-Fascist intellectual, told U.S. correspondents that Italy's best immediate hope would be the abdication of King Vittorio Emanuele and his son Umberto, followed by a regency under 72-year-old Marshal Pietro Badoglio for Umberto's son, the six-year-old Prince of Naples...
...According to the A.P., Marshal Badoglio broke the news to Vittorio Emanuele that no representative government could be formed while he, the King of Italy for 43 years, remained on the throne...
Married. British Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur William Tedder, 53, G.C.B., soft-spoken master of the Mediterranean air; and Mrs. Marie de Seton Black, 36, promoter of R. A. Freshing Malcolm Clubs in Algiers, Tunis; in Algiers. An air crash near Cairo killed his first wife last January...