Word: marshallizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...McMinn County, on the western roll of the Blue Ridge Mountains, politics is played for keeps, right up to the gunstock. For almost 30 years, McMinn's shootingest politician has been a stocky, grim-faced Democrat named Thomas Burkett Ivins, 63. As a "revenooer," a deputy marshal and McMinn County's sheriff, Burkett Ivins had never been slow on the draw. He had killed seven men-all, it was decided, justifiably. Old Burkett was proud of his pistol prowess; no one in sight of his one good eye was going to outshoot...
...fight in the event of another war: North army, based on Leningrad; Western army, based on Minsk; Southern army, based on Odessa; Caucasian army, based on Tiflis; Turkestan army, based on Tashkent and Frunze; Far Eastern army, based on Chita and Vladivostok. The armies are commanded as follows: Northern, Marshal Klimenti E. Voroshilov; Western, Marshal Konstantin Rokossovsky; Southern, Marshal Georgi K. Zhukov; Caucasian, Marshal Ivan Bagramian; Turkestan, Marshal Semion K. Timoshenko; Far Eastern, Marshal Rodion Y. Malinovsky. Eight hundred thousand men in this army of 1,800,000 are "mobile," in that they are replaced from time to time...
Were Russia an ardent supporter of the Marshall Plan, desirous of guaranteeing its activation, the Kremlin could scarcely have made a move better calculated to gain its goal than the recently consummated revival of the Communist International. For Senators and Representatives, who might not see their way clear to vote billions for purely humanitarian purposes, may be swayed by allusions to the "Red menace." But the "official party line." far from supporting the Marshal Plan, has damned it as a vile Capitalist plot...
...Communist Marshal also found time for more important business. In Belgrade, before the People's Front Congress, which included delegates from Communist parties all over Europe, he revealed the latest wrinkle in international Communist tactics. It was a revival and stiffening of the People's Front strategy (i.e., Communist posturing as the great friend of democracy in league with any deluded non-Communist groups. Chief purpose: to get a lion's share in democratic governments, thus saving the chancy wear & tear of violent seizures of power...
George Could Have Done It. Allen's charges against SHAEF and British Field Marshal Montgomery are heated and serious, but military men and plain readers alike will be apt to notice a lack of documentation for Author Allen's conclusions. Says Allen of the Falaise gap: "The trap was set. All that remained was to spring it. ... There was nothing...