Word: marshallizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Afternoon of Fun. At this point Lieut. Colonel Thomas Lancer, U.S. provost marshal in Berlin, arrived in an olive drab staff car. "Now tell me what has happened here," Lancer told the Russian through an interpreter...
...post of "chairman" was to go to Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery; under him France's General Alphonse-Pierre Juin (now governor of North Africa) was to command all land forces; Britain was to get command both at sea and in the air. The ultimate aim was to weld five armies, standing at the West's frontier, into one army...
...Gaulle's blast had immediate effects. The French cabinet nervously asked London to postpone the official announcement. Field Marshal Montgomery, who had felt so sure of his appointment that he had prepared to resign as chief of the Imperial General Staff, was waiting in his new Surrey country house to hear whether or not he had a job. Never a popular general, Monty faced much opposition as "chairman" of Western Europe's command...
...SEPT. 7. In Berlin, Marshal Sokolovsky plainly ignores the directive, demands further restrictions (on air traffic) before even talking about relaxing any restrictions whatever. He also demands Soviet control over all trade between Berlin and the Western zones...
...Hollywood's foot under the Iron Curtain. He made a deal with Russia, where almost no U.S. films are shown, to let in up to 20 films a year, pay for them with dollars in New York. Johnston hoped to close a similar deal with Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito...