Word: marshals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lists of Aids and Marshals representing all the returning alumni classes who have graduated in the past 25 years were announced yesterday by Senator Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. '24, Chief Marshal...
...last and heaviest burden in the destiny of Henri Philippe Petain has been a seemingly interminable life. The officer who waited 44 years to become a major, 62 years to be Marshal of France, 84 years to be chief of the French state, was condemned as a traitor at 89. Today, in his fortress cell at Ile d'Yeu, he waits...
...proceedings as a "dishonor to France," proposed a token bid of one franc for each item on sale, so that the objects might be returned to Petain. The offer was turned down. The indignant audience burst into the Marseillaise. Fifty policemen finally cleared the hall. Once more the Marshal's belongings would gather dust. The old man would scarcely have found use for them, anyway...
...Divided." One day last week, escorted by 400 Moorish guards mounted on gold-shod Arabian steeds, Franco rode to the Cortes. No less resplendent than his escorts, whose azure, red & orange capes flowed in the wind, the Caudillo wore the yellow, red & gold dress uniform of a Field Marshal of Spain. Briskly he entered the Cortes chamber through a special door which had been ripped open for him the night before, was bricked up again after the ceremony. Bobbing up & down, Franco acknowledged the cheers of the white-jacketed Procuradores (Cortes members) and the blue-uniformed Falangists. On hand...
...Harry Truman, Dean Acheson, Paul Hoffman, Walter Reuther and Douglas MacArthur; the U.S.S.R.'s Joseph Stalin, Vyacheslav Molotov, Georgy Malenkov, Nikoli Bulganin and Lavrenty Beria; Britain's Clement Attlee, Ernest Bevin and Winston Churchill; France's Jacques Duclos and Charles de Gaulle; Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito, China's Mao Tse-tung, Spain's Francisco Franco, Belgium's Paul-Henri Spaak, India's Jawaharlal Nehru, Israel's Chaim Weizmann, Jordan's King Abdullah, South Africa's Jan Christian Smuts, Argentina's Juan Perón, and Pope Pius...