Word: marshallizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Kassel and Nürnberg, Provost Marshal officers admitted the suicides of two German women in the apartments of U.S. officers...
...Belgrade prison cell, Draja Mihailovich awaited trial for treason (though he claimed that he had fought against Germany for his king & country). Marshal Tito (who had fought more effectively against Germany, but for Stalin & Communism) spoke sentence ahead of the judges: "[His] crimes against the people of Yugoslavia are far too big and horrible [to permit discussion of] whether he is guilty or not." 500-odd U.S. airmen who had fought in Yugoslavia disagreed...
...Vesey Street hearings, said that the U.S. had "some direct responsibility in the matter." But the U.S.'s official protests had been in vain and Washington was not prepared to take further action. Only the 500 grateful U.S. fliers were still trying. Their testimony would be forwarded to Marshal Tito in a probably futile effort to save Mihailovich's life...
...series of articles for London's Sunday Dispatch, the tall, shy, young Oxford-bred newspaperman who traveled and argued with Britain's Field Marshal from El Alamein to Germany, flatly denied Ingersoll's charge that Monty lost the battle of Caen while the British outnumbered the enemy. He dismissed the Ingersoll version of the battle of the Ardennes, "which represents Montgomery as panicking and screaming ... as putting the British Army into full retreat, as nearly losing the battle by abandoning the offensive . . . and finally as trying to scoop all the credit for himself...
Correspondent Clifford readily admitted that the cocksure, prissy, teetotaling Field Marshal was not always popular. "The older Desert veterans, in particular, resented him. . . . He is not a good mixer-he can't slap backs and drink with the boys and tell dirty stories." About his staff, says Clifford, there was "an atmosphere of amateurishness, almost of school-boyishness. ... Some of them ... looked as though they were certainly playboys in private life. Others were surprisingly youthful Fellows of Universities. . . . But the proof ... is in the battle. . . . The important thing is to avoid arguing that the General and his staff...