Word: marshallizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last month, Marshal Vassily Sokolovsky finally cracked down in a draconic order calling for all-out denazification to be finished Feb. 20. Attacks against the U.S.'s and Britain's admittedly imperfect denazification were Communism's favorite propaganda device, and Molotov himself is undoubtedly planning to use it at the Moscow conference. But the line can be effective only if Russia's own denazification record is clean. As a consequence, "little" or "forced" Nazis are being thrown out of industry, business, government, schools by the tens of thousands each week...
Clement Attlee had another paper to read. There would be a new Viceroy in India for the 15-month period of Britain's withdrawal. Bluntly dismissed (but rewarded with an earldom) was taciturn Field Marshal Viscount Wavell of Cyrenaica and Winchester, the one-eyed soldier who did not always see eye-to-eye with his Labor Government bosses in London, or with Indian leaders. In his place would be handsome, 46-year-old "Dickie" Mountbatten (Rear Admiral Viscount Mountbatten of Burma), second cousin of King George...
Married. The Hon. Felicity Anne. Wavell, 25, second daughter of Field Marshal Viscount Wavell, Viceroy of India, and Captain Peter Maitland Longmore, 25; in a lavish Lenten ceremony attended by eight maharajas, nine members of the Interim Government; on the day of the announcement of Viscount Wavell's replacement by Viscount Mountbatten (see FOREIGN NEWS); in New Delhi...
This would pave the way for the centralization under one roof of the varied activities of the Alumni Association, the Associated Harvard Clubs, the Harvard Fund Council, the Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Reunion Committee and the Commencement Marshal...
...Krim, bearded, limping Riff chief who nearly drove the Spaniards out of Morocco in the '20s (before France's Marshal Henri Philippe Petain, put in charge of combined Spanish and French forces, went down and whipped him), finally got the answer he wanted to a letter he has been sending to Paris every year. He could now get off Reunion Island, a muggy spot in the Indian Ocean to which he had been exiled (with two favorite wives and many relatives) back in 1926. Abd el-Krim decided to move to the French Riviera...