Word: marshallizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...TIME, Nov. 8), Taiyuan has become the prime Communist objective in North China. Taiyuan, surrounded capital of Shansi Province, is the last island of resistance protecting the southern flank of Nationalist General Fu Tso-yi's North China corridor. For three years Taiyuan's commander, oldtime warlord Marshal Yen Hsi-shan, has fought off increasingly heavy Communist attacks. Last week TIME Correspondent Robert Doyle flew in to visit the marshal. Doyle cabled...
...down on an expanse of craggy peaks with terraces stepped up the sides and brown parched river valleys. Taiyuan's danger could be seen with the naked eye. The walls of the square city hug the slope of a mountain range sprinkled with pillboxes held by the Communists. Marshal Yen's forces hold a line past the first group of hills to the west, where Taiyuan's rich coal and iron resources are mined. From positions as close as two miles from the walls the Reds can plunk artillery shells into the city and blanket two good...
What's Left? In Paris the traditional agent de police sketched by Bemelmans as a square-topped pyramid balanced on twin sticks, still stalked the streets in his cap and dark blue cape. The portly headwaiter too, who greeted both Barbara Hutton and Marshal von Brauchitsch with the same bow, had weathered the storm without a ruffle. Georges, the pander of the prewar underworld, had actually improved his status; he was now a respectable black-marketeer...
Died. Field Marshal Heinrich Alfred Hermann Walther von Brauchitsch, 67, onetime commander in chief of the German army (1938-41); of coronary thrombosis; in Hamburg, Germany, where he awaited trial as a war criminal. Son of a Prussian cavalry general, Brauchitsch increased the Wehrmacht's motorized divisions from two to six, occupied the Sudetenland, led the 18-day blitz of Poland, took Norway, Belgium, Holland, France, Yugoslavia and Greece...
Plievier's setting is the area around Stalingrad, where Field Marshal von Paulus and his 330,000 men of the German Sixth Army were ordered to fight to the bitter end-and nearly half were obliterated in the space of seven weeks. Plievier describes, with ruthless exactness, just how they were obliterated-how snow and ice shattered their limbs like dry wood, how they starved on dried peas and hot water while suffering horribly from dysentery and typhus, how they committed suicide and fell under fire, until after ten weeks only some 50,000 human wrecks remained able...