Word: zhukov
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...González to strike still harder at his late allies and their international tutors. That afternoon he summoned his Cabinet. Then, charging that the Soviet Union had "inspired grave attempts against the political independence of the republic," he sent a curt note to Russia's Ambassador Dimitri Zhukov, breaking off diplomatic relations. For good measure, he broke with Czechoslovakia...
...moment, Soviet Ambassador Dimitri Zhukov was still in Santiago, but many a Chilean thought he would not stay long. Two days after the Yugoslavs got the gate, his windows were peppered by machine-gun bullets from unknown attackers. Chile promptly expressed regret. The Soviet Union just as promptly called the shooting "a shocking infringement upon diplomatic immunity." González Videla was moving into the big time...
...Western army, based on Minsk; Southern army, based on Odessa; Caucasian army, based on Tiflis; Turkestan army, based on Tashkent and Frunze; Far Eastern army, based on Chita and Vladivostok. The armies are commanded as follows: Northern, Marshal Klimenti E. Voroshilov; Western, Marshal Konstantin Rokossovsky; Southern, Marshal Georgi K. Zhukov; Caucasian, Marshal Ivan Bagramian; Turkestan, Marshal Semion K. Timoshenko; Far Eastern, Marshal Rodion Y. Malinovsky. Eight hundred thousand men in this army of 1,800,000 are "mobile," in that they are replaced from time to time by new conscripts. But 1,000,000 men stay in the army throughout...
When the Russian Army took over Berlin, General Georgi Zhukov appointed old Sauerbruch as Berlin's public-health chief. On U.S. insistence, Sauerbruch was later fired from that job, but he remained in charge of the Charité. Last week Berliners were betting that the denazification court (the Spruchkammer) would clear the doctor. Said he, still spry and fiery at 72: "I am a physician and no Nazi...
Germans did not seem inspired to cooperation by the creation of Bizonia. Recently, at a party rally, bumptious demagogic Social Democrat Kurt Schumacher had shouted: "We Germans don't want to sell ourselves to either side, not for the Potemkin promises of Marshal Zhukov nor for the CARE packages from America." Apparently the Germans were not yet ready to contribute anything to the future of Europe except hard words and the hope that they might translate U.S.-Russian division into German nationalist advantage...