Word: marshalling
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...provisional Government of Adolphe Thiers at Versailles. Radical Parisians, still armed for the siege and fearing a restoration of the monarchy, set up a revolutionary Commune on March 18, 1871. The city which had previously been bombarded by the Germans was again bombarded by the French under Marshal MacMahon. Venerated by Socialists as the first workers' republic in history, the ill-fated Commune lasted until Thiers' troops conquered the city on May 29. As unpopular with their fellow Frenchmen as so many fifth columnists are today, thousands of Communards were killed. Before peace was made, Bismarck had William...
Personnel. The High Command of those glorious arms was announced by First Marshal Mussolini: Chief of the General Staff - Marshal Pietro Badoglio...
...Under Marshal Badoglio was a vice chief of the General Staff, General Ubaldo Soddu, but the Army's No. 2 man and field chief was Marshal Rodolfo Graziani, commanding the divisions along the French frontier. Crown Prince Umberto commanded an Army facing toward Yugoslavia where danger seemed small indeed this week. Commanding a southern defense corps headquartered in Sicily was Marshal Emilio De Bono, a white-bearded little Fascist oldster who planned and provoked the Ethiopian War, then botched it. Commanding in Libya was that "accomplished ruffian," Air Marshal Italo Balbo, Libya's Governor...
When ex-Corporal Mussolini marched on Rome in 1922, Marshal Badoglio, stanch monarchist, begged for a battalion of Royal Carabinieri to "sweep away these Black Shirt upstarts." He openly opposed the Ethiopian adventure until it became his duty to finish it. Although his heart may not be in this war, he is too good a soldier not to put his best brains and best effort into...
Objectives. An important moment to Italy last week was "non-belligerent" Spain's sudden occupation of international, demilitarized Tangier*on the African shore, west of the Strait of Gibraltar. Marshal Badoglio's older son is secretary of the Italian Legation in Tangier. Ostensibly there are only 1,000 Italians in the population of 75,000, but there are 12,000 Spaniards, and across the Strait, Spanish demonstrators last week shouted, "Gibraltar for Spain!" Just east of Tangier along the coast in Spanish Morocco loomed great coastal guns installed there for Spain by Germany, breasting the British guns...