Word: marshalling
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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According to Correspondent von Wiegand, Marshal of the Reich Göring was not only surprised but irritated that the U. S. should have the slightest anxiety about Germany. Said the Marshal...
Except for Prime Minister Churchill, Britain's defense forces have no supreme commander to coordinate the air, sea and land arms. There are air commanders for bombers, fighters, all under Air Chief Marshal Sir Cyril Newall. Chief of the home naval defense is Admiral Sir Charles Morton Forbes, under First Lord of the Admiralty Albert Victor Alexander and First Sea Lord Admiral Sir Dudley Pound. Under Sir Alan are six subordinate com mands: Southern, Aldershot, Northern, Eastern, Western, Scottish...
Italy's forces in Libya under fierce Marshal Rodolfo Graziani, who succeeded Italo Balbo when the latter was killed, could be reinforced from Italy's total reserves at home as long as Italian transports could safely cross the Mediterranean. Water is the direst military factor in Libya. In East Africa, reinforceable only by air (because Suez would be plugged before being surrendered), Italy had one white division (Savoy Grenadiers) of 21,391 men, seven native militia legions (50,000), 70,000 white farmers and workers trained as a militia reserve. Her airplanes there, which could be added...
...problem of restoring France's econ omy was chiefly a question of finding men to do the work. One of the points that Marshal Pétain discussed with the Armis tice Commission was the return of 1,500,000 French prisoners of war, still held in German prison camps. In central and southern France were 10,000,000 refugees waiting to be conveyed back into territory occupied by Nazis. There were 1,200,000 Belgians waiting to be sent back to Belgium. To repair railroads and highways, reconstruct bridges destroyed by German bombs, the Premier last week mobilized...
...these policies did not necessarily add up to a Fascist State, nor to making Laval quite the Little Man that he was pictured by Cartoonist Herblock of the Pittsburgh Press. Friend of France with kind words for harassed Marshal Pétain was Catholic Monsignor Mark Boehm. Writing in Rome for the Vatican City newspaper, Osservatore Romano, Mgr. Boehm saw "the good Marshal" using an authoritarian regime to create "a civic conscience that opens and prepares the way for ... strengthening the moral conscience. . . ." Praise from the Vatican newspaper was the next best thing to a blessing by the Pope...