Word: marshals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...French bombing planes of maximum size thundering in circles all day over Belgrade made sad-eyed French President Albert Lebrun feel safer. M. le Président also had with him War Minister Marshal Pétain, a company of steel-helmeted French infantry, 200 bluejackets and 50 picked detectives of the Sûreté Nationale...
Meanwhile the Court scandal of the decade vortexed around General Alexander Dimitriejevitch, Marshal of the Court who accompanied King Alexander to Marseille. "He should have committed suicide since he failed to protect King Alexander's life!" cried officers of the Royal Guard. "Instead of that he returns to take up his post as the guardian of King Peter as though nothing had happened...
...again came the pale shadow of Alexander Stavisky, almost forgotten for a few days. France's Minister of War is Marshal Henri Pétain. Honest and ingenuous, he is serving his first trick in a Council of Ministers and hence has little understanding of the terrific pressure, the secret wire-pulling, under which equally honest Minister of Justice Henry Cheron has attempted to conduct the Stavisky investigation...
...Finland. Swedish generals agreed last week that it had indeed been a bad blunder to destroy the Aland forts in 1922. It would be wise, they thought, to pay Finland to rebuild them. Seeing eye-to-eye with them was at least one big man in Finland-Field Marshal Baron Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim, president of the Defense Council. Baron Mannerheim has a good claim to the title of Finland's "Grand Old Man." Now 67, he fought through the Tsars' wars to the rank of Major General of Cavalry in 1917. After the last Tsar abdicated...
...deck tennis with Tutor Parrott. Mr. Parrott missed the ring a good many times, and seemed distracted. At Paris the train stopped some distance from the station. Heavily guarded by police and still spouting questions, little Peter of Jugoslavia was rushed to the Paris residence of Jugoslavia's Marshal of the Royal Household, while the rest of his party went to the Ritz.* Next morning Dowager Queen Marie of Jugoslavia, all in black and looking very pale and sick, arrived to meet her son. As Peter ran forward to kiss her she did something very funny. She dropped...