Word: marshallizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Other Irishmen among Britain's top commanders: Field Marshal Sir John G. Dill, General Sir Bernard L. Montgomery, General Sir Claude J. E. Auchinleck, Field Marshal Sir Alan F. Brooke...
Commando Captain Robin Campbell, D.S.O., sociable, absent-minded son of one of Britain's top-flight diplomats (Sir Ronald Hugh Campbell, now Ambassador to Portugal), was wounded and captured in the brilliant but unsuccessful 1941 raid on Field Marshal Rommel's headquarters in North Africa. Exchanged (because he had lost a leg), he summed up his prison-camp experience in an article for London's literary review Horizon, reprinted in Boston's June Atlantic Monthly...
North to the Baltic. The ground, which had dried out two months ago in the south, was now fit for large-scale operations all the way to the Baltic. In the south, Marshal Konev's armies had a fully coiled spring aimed toward the Galati gap which leads on to the Rumanian plain, to Bucharest and the oil of Ploesti...
Yugoslavia. There, as elsewhere, the Allies' object was: ". . . to beat the enemy as soon as possible, to gather all forces together for that purpose in priority to any other purpose." For that reason, the Allies had recognized the ascendancy of Communist Marshal Tito and his Partisans. Churchill recorded the already known fact that young King Peter had fired his exiled Premier Bozhidar Purich and his War Minister, Chetnik General Draja Mihailovich (who "has not been fighting the enemy"). Then Churchill recognized a long-range, sometimes overlooked fact about multiracial Yugoslavia...
...This question does not turn on General Mihailovich alone. There is also a very large body, amounting perhaps to 200,000 Serbian peasant property owners, who are anti-German but strongly Serbian. . . . They are not as enthusiastic in regard to Communism as some of those in Croatia and Slovenia. Marshal Tito has largely sunk his Communistic aspect in his character as a Yugoslav patriotic leader. He has repeatedly proclaimed that he has no intention of reversing [Serbia's] property and social systems . . . but these facts are not accepted yet by the other side...