Word: marshals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mark of Eton, Harrow or Rugby and the casual polish of Oxford or Cambridge. Last week, however, the word got out that the Foreign Office had sent to Britain's embassy freshmen throughout the world 300 copies (marked "confidential") of a manual of polite procedure.* The elegant vice marshal of the diplomatic corps in London, Marcus Cheke (rhymes with peak), 43, with 14 years of embassy life in Brussels and Lisbon, had drawn up a deportment primer for the 200 raw recruits taken in by the Foreign Service over the past three years...
...Anyone offering a defense of Germans runs the chance of being considered a Nazi sympathizer, but since the forthcoming trial of German Field Marshal von Rundstedt appears to me to have some significance...
...Usti-nad-labem, Czechoslovakia, tactful city fathers changed the name of General Eisenhower Embankment to Premier Antonin Zapotocky Embankment, and the name of Marshal Tito Street to Jan Sverma Street (after a late national Communist hero...
...King Peter of Yugoslavia denounced Marshal Tito's government as a "police state worse than any Nazi regime" before an audience of 750 at the Business School yesterday...
...copy of the U.S. V Corps' invasion plan. If the Germans on the spot had known what to do about it, he said, "the entire outcome of the war might have been different." As it was, the document took a month traveling leisurely up through channels to Field Marshal von Rundstedt's headquarters. "By that time," said Huebner, "the plan made a nice souvenir...