Word: marshallizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wartime series by one "Colonel Thomas Rainsboro," attacking Churchill's military strategy, stirred the greatest tempest in the Tribune's decade. It was widely attributed to Field Marshal Wavell, but was probably written by cocky, brilliant Frank Owen, like Foot a onetime Beaverbrook boy and now acting editor of the Daily Mail...
...another fretful area of big-power relations, Tass reported that during his recent Kremlin conversations, Field Marshal Montgomery proposed an Anglo-Russian exchange of officers similar to that between the U.S. and Britain. Stalin said this was "desirable" but at present "not quite appropriate...
...last 30 years, Marshal of the R.A.F. Sir Arthur Harris has progressed from attacking Iraqi and Indian tribes men in a bailing-wire kite to crumpling the huge Nazi war machine with his powerful, purring Bomber Command...
Roared angry Sir Arthur, the strategy required to defeat the Germans was minuscule compared to the strategy required at home to allow him to beat the Germans. With few kindly words for anyone (exceptions: Churchill, Eisenhower, Marshal of the R.A.F. Lord Portal), he rates the enemies of Bomber Command as: 1) the Royal Navy; 2) the British Army; 3) the German air force; 4) British civil service; 5) the politicians. After the Air Ministry under Sir Archibald Sinclair, "who went cap in hand to the other services," came the German Army and Sweden...
Most of Author Brogan's essays feature historical figures, but, in the modern manner, the chosen figure serves equally as a peg on which Author Brogan hangs dissertations on social conditions and any lively bits of stuff that catch his eye. The essay on Marshal Bazaine, for example, is not merely a portrait of the man who lost the Franco-Prussian War, it is also a discussion of the grand tradition of French marshals, from Turenne to Rochambeau...