Word: marshallizing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...elder statesman and an aging marshal made news in Italy last week...
...fourth night Premier Joseph Stalin, dressed in the uniform of a Red Army Marshal, received Eden and British Ambassador Sir Archibald Clark Kerr. There was a mild flurry back in the U.S.: could it be a snub? But Mountaineer Hull, ever sensitive about his honor and dignity, was unruffled; he knew of the meeting in advance, four nights later had his own audience with Stalin...
...Marshal wanted the record straight. To make sure, he gave an interview last week to the New York Times's Herbert L. Matthews, the Baltimore Sun's Mark S. Watson and a correspondent of the London Times. He told them that Mussolini had sought to dissuade Hitler from war in 1939, but that the swift advance of the Germans through Belgium and France in May 1940 changed his mind. In placing the blame, Badoglio omitted to mention King Vittorio Emanuele's signing of the declaration...
...till the viceregal flag broke out over the palace dome was the public aware that Field Marshal Lord Wavell had mounted the golden throne. Within jasper-columned Durbar Hall, he had taken the three great oaths: 1) the oath of allegiance to King-Emperor George VI; 2) the oath as Governor-General of British India; 3) the oath of Viceroy representing the Crown to the autonomous Indian States. In that nine-minute ceremony, he had also attained a sumptuous $10,000,000 palace; a job paying in salary and expenses about $280,000 a year; the top appointive post...
Famine gripped large areas of India (TIME, Oct. 18). Three days after his inauguration, Field Marshal Lord Wavell announced that he would visit hunger-plagued Calcutta, where whole families were dying on the streets. The Bengal Government was one of several provincial Governments which had dallied at commandeering rice crops and stocks, and distributing them to the hungry. Lord Wavell has the power to do so for all of India, and the Central Government has already threatened to override dilatory provincial authorities if necessary. But, even with the utmost vigor on his part, a solution will be difficult...