Word: marshals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Carefully Briton Brailsford described the system of parallel government in Bombay, whereby members of the Indian National Congress themselves marshal and police their demonstrations. He reported that the Gandhiwomen who picket shops selling British goods, and who fling themselves down to be trodden on by any Indian determined to enter, will stand aside for occidental shoppers. "The shopkeepers themselves signed a requisition to the effect that they made no complaint against this peaceful picketing, and for a time there were few arrests...
...battle is not the piont. That will all be threshed out again for the hundredth time when Marshal Joffre's memoirs are published posthumously...
...point is that last week all France learned with an emotion hardly to be conveyed in words that on Dec. 19 the Marshal had sustained an amputation of his right foot, had been suffering the most terrible pain, yet had commanded...
...people know until Christmas has passed." ' Such a man the French called "Papa" Joffre, and he responded with a fatherly love. The announcement, by his doctors, that in their opinion the death of Marshal Joffre was imminent cast a shadow deeper and more appalling than any since...
...Supernatural Power. Also a Catholic,* also at times a masterful man, Joffre could fail of the highest achievements and yet be loved, as a father who has not wholly succeeded is loved by his children. On Jan. 12, 1852, to a mother who bore eleven children, the future Marshal Joffre was born at Rivesaltes in the eastern Pyrenees. In 1870 Joffre took a student's furlough from the École Polytechnique to fight in the defense of Paris, unsuccessfully. With soldiering in his blood, he went to the Far East, assisted at the French occupation of Formosa...