Word: marshallizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Belgrade, Marshal Tito reviewed a parade...
...Army's vigilant rocket guns and long-range artillery rolled through Red Square, Stalin stood on the topmost level of Lenin's tomb. Smiling affably, he leaned over to the level below, bright with bemedaled Red Army officers, and invited Marshal Georgi K. Zhukov to come up and stand beside him. Down on the streets, the proletariat clustered around cheap food stands, dance bands and vaudeville shows...
...days at Nürnberg, tall, intense ex-Gestapo agent Dr. Hans Bernd Gisevius "sang." He had some significant gossip to impart: in 1933 War Minister Field Marshal Werner Eduard Fritz von Blomberg (54, widowered father of five) met Erika Gruhn in one of Berlin's better brothels. Said Gisevius, she was licensed to ply her prostitute's trade in seven major cities, and, as a sideline, she sold pornographic literature. By 1938, she had acquired such influence over the Herr Minister that he decided to marry...
...Tell the Boss." In England early on the morning of June 6, 1944, the telephone rang. It was Air Chief Marshal Sir Trafford Leigh-Mallory, who had opposed Eisenhower's plan to use paratroopers in the invasion of France. Now Leigh-Mallory had good news: paratroop losses seemed to be light, and things were going fine. "Grand, said I, grand, I'll tell the boss as soon as he wakes up. ... I tiptoed down the cinder path to Ike's circus wagon to see if he was asleep and saw him silhouetted in bed behind a Western...
President Roosevelt, King George VI, Harry Hopkins, General Marshall, and General de Gaulle appear on the scene. Butcher talked to most of them, and reports pretty tactfully on what they had to say. Sometimes there was discord ("After all, Allies are like families"): in November 1944, Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery sent a letter suggesting that the Allied armies had suffered "a strategic reverse" and needed a "new plan"; this, says Butcher, "made Ike hot under the collar." Of the General Patton soldier-slapping, Butcher reports: "Ike is deeply concerned and has scarcely slept for several nights." One night at dinner...