Word: marshallizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last Sunday. The Communists had taken a sore beating in the last elections (1946), winning only 20% of the popular vote and placing only 26 of their men on the 130-member Assembly. Now, with their prestige at its lowest ebb, they could not afford another free election. So Marshal Vasily Sokolovsky informed the Western commanders that Russia would boycott the Sunday elections; there would be no balloting in the Soviet sector...
This story doesn't end on the last page of the novel. Field Marshal Von Paulus, the commander of the Sixth Army, joined the so-called Free Germany Committee shortly after his capture. This group was made up of German ex-officers in Russian captivity, who became opposed to Nazism and were carefully trained to form a pro-Russian puppet administration in Germany. Today Von Paulus is said to be commanding an army of pro-Communist German veterans--a ghost army somewhere in eastern Europe, ready to pounce when the time comes. Theodor Plievier himself came to Germany...
...Utterly Untrue." The heaviest barrage came from London's Sunday Times† whose "military correspondent," Colonel C. D. Hamilton, once served on the staff of Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery. Treating Eisenhower's memoirs as an attack on Montgomery, Golonel Hamilton counterattacked: "One is forced-to the conclusion . . . that General Eisenhower considers that the war was really won by America, that every American view was right, every British idea wrong . . . His comments on Field Marshal Lord Montgomery . . . are utterly untrue...
...Though I Die . . ." Many Chinese, especially northerners, could not accept this apparent detachment in the face of Japan's threat. In December 1936, the Nationalist garrison at Sian, facing Communist guerrilla forces, laid down their arms and refused to fight "fellow Chinese" any longer. Like their commander, Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang ("The Young Marshal"), most of them were from Manchuria, and they wanted to fight the Japanese, if anybody. Chiang flew immediately to Sian to investigate...
...Yugoslavia the Marshall Plan and the Tito rule were being bracketed with a broad grin. A visiting diplomat asked a Yugoslav to tell him-in strictest confidence-how the nation felt about Marshal Tito. "One. hundred percent in favor," came the answer. The visitor's eyebrows shot up. "Oh, yes," explained the Yugoslav. "Just add it up: 95% for Marshall, five for Tito...