Word: marshallizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sent an ultimatum to Marshal Tito's Yugoslavia demanding redress and satisfaction over the capture and killing of U.S. airmen...
...Although Marshal Tito cried that he wanted peace "but not at any price," he soon complied with the U.S. terms. The prisoners from the first plane were released (they said they had received good treatment); the bodies of the four known dead from the second plane were disinterred from the hasty grave in which they had been buried and escorted to Belgrade with highest military honors...
Last week, after 27 days in office, Postmaster Smith was fired. His appointment was withdrawn, and he was told to make way for one Walter Menefee, 53, who had been deputy U.S. marshal at Springfield (85 miles from Clinton). There was no doubt that Menefee had the post. His credentials were signed by Postmaster General Bob Hannegan...
...world tormented almost to indifference by the international welter of civil strife, rioting, pillage, expropriation, the collapse of social and political tradition and the failure of the nations' leaders to achieve peace found one fact indisputable last week: in Yugoslavia Marshal Josip Broz Tito's war planes had shot down two unarmed U.S. transports (one in flames) and killed four American citizens...
...shot down an unarmed U.S. transport plane which had strayed over the forbidden corner of Yugoslavia between Austria and Italy-a region of high mountains and frequently lowering skies. Said the two U.S. eyewitnesses: "It was completely overcast; there wasn't a break in the clouds." Said Marshal Tito: "It was notorious " . . that the day was absolutely clear and of perfect visibility...