Word: marshallizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Schlesinger the most serious problem now is the increasing pressure in Europe for rearmament with its concomitant diversion of recovery funds. "The only way out," he asserted, "will be by an iron-clad military commitment to the Marshal Plan countries and the immediate resumption of military lend-lease...
...first efforts of the four Allied zone commanders to alleviate the Berlin crisis at the "working level" resulted in complete breakdown-so complete that immediate suspicion arose that the Russian commander, Marshal Vassily Sokolovsky, was merely stalling. While the Berlin talks were going on, the Communists tried crassly and unsuccessfully to increase their stranglehold on the city (see below...
Treachery at Dawn. It lasted for 40 hours. It ended in the way the Russians always knew they could end it: by treachery. Marshal Vassily Sokolovsky assured French officials-who made some of the most strenuous protests-of safe conduct for the Germans. Out of the darkness of their rooms, the weary prisoners came into the darkness of night, gratefully breathing the clean air of early morning...
...check with French police showed that the tipsters knew what they were talking about. During the war Jacques de Bernonville was propaganda director under Marshal Henri Pétain and a director of operations against the French underground. Furthermore, the French police reported, he had caused the deaths of Frenchmen and other Allied soldiers "probably including Canadians from the Royal Canadian Air Force." That settled Count de Bernonville's appeal for Canadian citizenship. Ottawa ordered him out of the country...
...Buicks, Cadillacs and Maybachs, the captains and the kings arrived. Marshal Vassily Sokolovsky rode in a '39 La Salle with baby-blue window curtains. General Lucius Clay was late, bounded up the steps whistling a vague tune. With Britain's Sir Brian Robertson and France's Koenig, they sat down to a hard bargaining session. The meeting, though suddenly called, had not required much preparation: the conference room had been kept scrubbed and polished-just in case the military governors, who had not used it for 23 weeks, might come back. Nor had the delegates needed much...