Word: marshals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hues of the Dominion of India's tricolor: green, white and orange. At the end, in a silver chariot drawn by four snow-white pedigreed bullocks with green painted horns, came mountainous Congress President Bhogarazu Pattabhi Sitaramayya, smothered in marigold garlands and beaming like the grand marshal of a St. Patrick's Day Parade on Fifth Avenue...
Nazi Field Marshal Albert Kesselring, 63, whose death sentence for war crimes (he supervised the bombing of defenseless Warsaw and supine Rotterdam) was commuted in 1947 to life imprisonment, returned to his prison after a ten-day leave, spent with his wife at a Bavarian lakeside resort. It was all "in accordance with normal penal regulations," his British keepers announced; before he went, unguarded, "Smiling Albert" had given his word that he would be back...
Most valuable of tlie books on the shooting war itself was General Eisenhower's Crusade in Europe, a lucid account of Allied strategy, written in serviceable Service English. To be assured of just how good it was, readers had only to turn to Field Marshal Montgomery's soldierly but dry-as-dust Normandy to the Baltic, which covered much of the same ground as Crusade. There were official and semi-official Service histories by the score, but the best to set beside Ike's book were Fletcher Pratt's expert, well-written and exciting The Marines...
...never broke down. Pearson got many a beat like the General George Patton* slapping story merely by printing what other newsmen knew, but had kept to themselves from feelings of patriotism or a foggy sense of newspaper ethics. He also made many a wild forecast -among them, that Marshal Tito would be assassinated in 1947 and, along with almost every pundit, that Truman would be beaten in 1948. He has not yet lived down his 1946 "disclosure" that U.S. troops had sired 14,000 Japanese bastards-though the G.I.s had been in Japan only six months. Such bobbles did little...
Died. Dr. Jan Hendrik Hofmeyr, 54, South Africa's brilliant longtime Minister of Finance and Education, onetime Deputy Prime Minister and able lieutenant to Field Marshal Smuts; constant advocate of improved conditions for Negroes; of coronary thrombosis; in Johannesburg...