Word: marshallizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Inspiration for this Romeo & Juliet parody (by Sagittarius, Britain's shrewdest satirical versifier, in the New Statesman and Nation) was Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery's five-day visit to Moscow, where, as part of his lavish entertainment, he was taken to a gala performance of Prokofiev's Romeo & Juliet. The Chief of the Imperial General Staff was feted as few foreigners have been in Moscow. Well aware of the recent British drift, especially among left-wing Laborites, away from the U.S. and toward Russia, the Kremlin was trying its best to encourage the trend...
Monty had a long, warm talk with Stalin, was given a round of receptions and reviews. Out "to establish friendly contact with the Soviet Army," he invited its Chief of Staff, Marshal Alex ander M. Vasilevsky, and other ranking Russian officers to visit England next summer. The Russians promptly accepted...
...Utah's state prison, slight, bearded, ageless (according to him) Hiram Bebee, sentenced to be shot for the murder of a Mt. Pleasant town marshal, took a highly philosophical view of the news that he had been granted a new trial. Said he: "Physical death is unimportant to me. I have lived many times before and will live many times in the future." The Bebee formula for indefinite life: "proper eating and thinking...
...public did not sense the meaning of Byrnes's tireless efforts until one August week when five U.S. Army flyers lay dead in a tiny village in the Julian Alps, victims of Marshal Tito's outdated confidence that the U.S. would look the other way. Communist Tito had been a great war hero to the U.S.; overnight he became the focus of U.S. wrath. Byrnes, sitting in a buzzing Conference session at Paris, spent two hours writing Tito a note that told him where he stood with a nation that had learned at last that the price...
...under his wing, now in his tail feathers. All the time the eagle keeps quite still. But it would be a great mistake to suppose that nothing is going on inside the breast of the eagle. I venture to give this friendly hint to my old wartime comrade, Marshal Stalin...