Word: marshals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Governor Leverett Saltonstall '14 was elected last night to be Chief Marshal in the Commencement Day exercises this spring. At the same time the nominating committee of the Alumni Association submitted the names of fifteen candidates for the five vacancies that will occur on the Board of Overseers this June...
...France where he has been living as an exile. Known as a Germanophile and Fascist, hardheaded, stiff-necked Augustine Valdemaras is also bitterly anti-Polish. Back in the late twenties he campaigned so vigorously for the return of Vilna* to Lithuania that Poland's late gruff old Marshal Pilsudski finally asked him point-blank in a League council meeting: "Is it peace or war?" Also of interest to Hitler is the fact that Valdemaras was associated in 1917 with a Ukrainian Mission which came to Berlin seeking German backing for an independent Ukrainian state, an idea that suits Germany...
...last week himself held a supreme Chinese conference on strategy. To replace "Outlaw Chiang," the Japanese Government proposed to set up a new central Chinese Government, not another venal gang of mere puppets, such as those already established at Peking and Nanking, but a State headed by the Scholar Marshal, famed Wu Pei-fu. Marshal Wu had a long and brilliant military career under the Manchu Dynasty, thus might see eye-to-eye with a Japanese scheme to restore as Emperor of China the deposed Kang Teh, now puppet Emperor of Manchukuo...
...Marshal liked strong wine, to eat off gold plate. But he has spent most of his time studying and meditating in Buddhist monasteries since 1927, when he and other Chinese provincial war lords were defeated by Generalissimo Chiang in his great campaign to unify China. "He is too matter of fact to be good company,"commented Upton Close, who knew Wu well, "but Wu Pei-fu is one of the few men in China who cannot be bought."Last week the Marshal was available in Peking. If he has really come to terms with Japan (and in 1932 he wrote...
...action to the word, she last week journeyed to Paris, put up at the Hotel Meurice (where the Duke & Duchess of Windsor were also resident) in order to be on hand for the state visit of Carol before he went on to Berlin to discuss trade relations with Field Marshal Goring...