Word: marshallizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Faces to the West. At last week's meeting of the Allied Control Council for Germany, Marshal Vassily Sokolovsky, the Russian representative, said he feared the proposal for economic unity would have the effect of continuing the division of Germany among the great powers. He implied that Anglo-U.S. unity was an agreement against Russia-as in a sense it was. Not that the Western powers wanted to exclude Russia. Last month U.S. Secretary of State Byrnes had offered to merge the economic administration of the U.S. zone with all or any of the other zones. Byrnes understood...
Perhaps the gayest of all the matrons are Frau Keitel (her husband, like Field Marshal Göring, has been detained on business in Nürnberg) and young Frau von Blomberg (who met her late husband, the War Minister, in one of Berlin's most exclusive brothels); they share a ten-room chalet high above the lake...
Nobody Home. When the Germans arrived, Bonnard left Paris to live in a mountainside villa near Cannes. Vichy officials made the two-mile climb to his place, asked the old man to paint the portrait of another oldster-Marshal Petain. Said Bonnard: "If Marshal Petain is a good model, I'll paint him. But, remember, if I don't like my work I reserve the right to destroy it." The Vichyites dropped the whole idea...
...away the Japanese best-seller last week was Field Marshal MacArthur, a laudatory 64-page pamphlet biography by Ippo Yamazaki, well-known Japanese novelist. In six months it has sold 850,000 copies, is expected to top a million as soon as the publishers get paper for another printing. Other top titles on the Japan Publishers Association's current list of bestsellers...
Last week the Moscow censor passed a report that Marshal Georgi Zhukov, head of all Soviet land forces, had been assigned to command the Odessa military district. It was as though Ike Eisenhower had been sent back to San Antonio. The Soviet press did not mention the move, but the world outside erupted with rumors...