Word: marshallizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rhine in the Wesel sector was a fact, and jubilant Winston Churchill stood on the west bank exclaiming repeatedly to Ike: "My dear General, the German is whipped. We've got him. He is all through." But sweeter, perhaps, to Eisenhower, was the fervent comment of Field Marshal Brooke, Churchill's army chief of staff: ''Thank God, Ike, you stuck by your plan. You were completely right . . . Thank God, you stuck by your guns...
Churchill, in spite of honest differences with Ike, always backed him up. During the campaign in France, says Ike, "Prime Minister Churchill and Field Marshal Brooke took occasion to inform me that they also were prepared, at any moment I expressed dissatisfaction with any of my principal British subordinates, to replace him instantly." This unity of command, says Eisenhower, was one of the great achievements...
Essentially an optimist, Eisenhower thought at first that Russia and the West had a good chance of working out their postwar differences, tried hard in Berlin to make a go of it with Marshal Zhukov. The Marshal, he found, was merely a high-ranking Kremlin mouthpiece without authority, though Stalin himself said to Ike: "There is no sense in sending a delegate somewhere if he is merely to be an errand boy. He must have authority to act." Ike soon learned that the East-West ideological differences were irreconcilable, that adequate military defense would provide the only real security...
...take down an engine), but that flopped. He taught boxing, refereed at football matches. In León he was a meter reader. Then, briefly, he got a city job, inspecting privies. It got him the nickname el mariscal, because the long flashlight he carried looked like a marshal's baton...
...evening of July 27, 1941, a skinny, sickly civilian clambered aboard a PBY Catalina at Invergordon, Scotland. His correct, grey Homburg hat bore the initials of Britain's wartime Prime Minister. The pasty-faced passenger had no official title: he was going to Moscow to see Marshal Joseph Stalin as the personal emissary of the President of the U.S. In fact, the trip was the thin man's own idea. But President Roosevelt had given Harry Hopkins his blessing, and Winston Churchill had given him his hat, when Hopkins lost...