Word: marshalling
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...evening of May 9 last week, Adolf Hitler went to a cinema in Berlin, a sentimental musical film like The Student Prince. His No. 2 man, Field Marshal Hermann Goring, and Propaganda Minister Paul Joseph Goebbels attended the premiere of Cavour, a play on which Benito Mussolini, onetime journalist, collaborated. Italy's dictator promised his royalty for the first evening, and half of all his subsequent royalties, to the German Red Cross. Field Marshal Goring arrived late, which made his presence, in resplendent white uniform, the more conspicuous...
...Waterloo, British officers danced till dawn. Last week, as another no less significant zero hour approached, Germans did equally strange things. Adolf Hitler, as well as Field Marshal Hermann Wilhelm Goring, Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels, Goring's half-Aryan Air Chief of Staff, Colonel General Erhard Milch, and numerous high Army officers all went to the theatre. Ordinary Germans flocked to the just opened Kurfurstendamm street cafes where young couples enjoyed the privacy of darkness, and oldsters listened to the newest song hit, Woodpecker's Serenade. Foreign correspondents switched off their teletypes and went home to bed. When...
...Klim" Upstairs. No less significant than its reform in principle was the Red Army's simultaneous shift in personnel. Defense Commissar Marshal Kliment ("Klim") Voroshilov, the popular, jolly and easygoing warlord who for 15 years has cavorted about the Red Square every May Day on a glossy charger set off by a naming red saddlecloth with gold trimmings, was kicked upstairs to the job of Vice Premier and Chairman of the Defense Committee...
...Committee theoretically controls the Army, Navy and Air Force, so that ostensibly Klim was promoted, but in Moscow few doubted the Dictator was stripping the Marshal of all real power. Two most accepted reasons: 1) the original Red Army fiasco in the Finnish campaign was the fault of either the Dictator or of his Defense Commissar, and ipso facto in Russia it was not Joseph Stalin's fault; 2) Klim is a believer in the traditional Russian defensive strategy, which would be a handicap if & when the U. S. S. R. continues aggressions. His successor...
...bother about the silk hat, but under no circumstances get caught with your baton down," is the advice to his corps of assistants of Paul M. Hollister '13, Marshal for Harvard Day at the World's Fair tomorrow...