Word: marshals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...delayed, was sumptuous. Two coaches from the royal stable carried the Communist party from their hotel to St. James's. Scarlet-coated footmen were on the box, Ambassador Sokolnikov, trying to look proletarian under his silk hat, sat inside with Major-General Sir John Hanbury-Williams, diplomatic corps marshal. In the Ambassadors' Court at St. James's Palace, the Reds were met by four of the King's marshalmen in peaked caps and Elizabethan costumes (resembling a cross between the Jack of Hearts and a master of hounds), and Mr. J. B. Monk of the Foreign...
...Whew!" Wasp-waisted little President Chiang Kai-shek of China made a proclamation last week which resembled nothing so much as a long shrill "Whew!" The President was voicing his relief at his success as a field-marshal in beating off and vanquishing, at least for a time, the armies of war lords opposed to his regime (TIME, Oct. 14, et seq). Whewed he: "The recent upheaval against our Government was the greatest yet experienced. Our fate hung by a single hair. What was this hair? The loyalty and bravery of our officers and men, whose courage never faltered! Again...
...months ago the Polish Sejm (Parliament) attempted to convene. Ninety officers with clanking sabres and big black pistols stomped into the building. The Dictator of Poland, Military Josef Pilsudski, and his chief opponent. Civilian Marshal Ignacy Daszynski, snarled at each other across a table. The Sejm adjourned (TIME, Nov.11...
Unlike other dictators, Marshal Pilsudski's official position is merely that of Minister of War. Last week, invigorated by enforced vacation, the deputies resolutely carried out their purpose to convene, listened to a two-hour speech from Finance Minister Matuszewski, promptly next day ousted the government of Prime Minister Switalski by a vote of "No Confidence...
...gorgeous in hose, doublet and a stiff medieval ruff, with a red-plumed morion on his head; and Commendatore de Mandato, general of the Pope's Armies. Out of his automobile stepped short-legged Vittorio Emanuele III, in the grey-green and silver dress uniform of a field marshal. From his hat sprouted a white aigrette, round his neck hung the flashing gold chain of the Collar of the Annunziata, on his breast blazed medals. Towering a good head and shoulders above him stood Queen Elena...