Word: marshallizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Pierre Laval came to judgment. With him came none of the dreadful pity, the sense of terrible duty that had been in every Frenchman's heart during the trial, death sentence and commutation to life imprisonment, of old Marshal Henri Pétain. The elimination of Pierre Laval, a necessary chore, might have been a satisfying vengeance. He made it a shameful farce...
...Court of Justice in Paris with a shrewd and baleful eye. As his treasonable acts were recited, the arch-collaborator of Vichyfrance calculatingly sized up the opposition: white-haired André Mornet, prosecutor of Mata Hari and Pétain; red-robed Judge Pierre Mongibeaux, who had sentenced the Marshal two months ago; the jury of resistance leaders and parliamentarians...
...trip across, William Lyon Mackenzie King was the only one of the Queen Mary's passengers to have a suite, although ex-U.S. Attorney General Francis Biddle, British Air Chief Marshal Sir Charles Portal and Lady Portal were also aboard. As the Mary edged up to Southampton Sunday noon, the Prime Minister (in pale grey suit, blue tie) gawped momentarily at a quayside thronged with cheering people, then noted that they were cheering British prisoners of war arriving simultaneously at an adjacent pier. The Prime Minister waved, and joined in the cheering...
...Field Marshal Sir Bernard Law Montgomery, according to a now-it-can-be-told story, bamboozled Axis spies with a double, Lieut. Clifton James, peacetime actor. The double made a noisy departure for Africa, got a big official welcome in Algiers, set the spies to reporting the Marshal's absence from his invasion base just before Dday...
...Europe. He was the first to predict the Teheran conference between Roosevelt, Stalin and Churchill. In November 1943 he suggested a United Nations Council, with headquarters in the U.S. He tactfully called it "the Big Four," leaving out his still-prostrate France. Long before most others did, he foresaw Marshal Tito's triumph over Mihailovich...