Word: marshals
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Bobbing Beard. The danger was that the tense crowds on both sides of the barriers might merge and touch off the East German revolt that everyone feared. Already Moscow's famed Marshal Ivan Konev had moved two divisions of Russian troops into Berlin's outskirts, ready for the kind of action that the Soviets had employed to put down the abortive 1953 East German revolt. But the West Berliners were not intimidated. "Berlin bleibt frei, Berlin bleibt frei" (Berlin will remain free), chanted a crowd of 30,000 gathered a stone's throw from the Vopos...
...Needs You." Dillon, with his banking and diplomatic experience, was obviously an excellent choice for Kennedy's purpose. They had first met in 1956 at Harvard, when Dillon was grand marshal at the 25th reunion of his class and Senator Kennedy the winner of an honorary degree. After the ceremony, they dropped by the select Spec Club (both men were members) to chat, later became friends and occasional golfing companions. But when President-elect Kennedy asked to come to Dillon's house (Dillon thought it should be the other way around) and came through several days later with...
...case of an uprising. Should all these home-grown forces fail or defect, as was the case in Hungary, there remains the formidable Russian army in East Germany. 350,000 to 400,000 strong. Last week these forces got a new commander experienced in quelling popular uprisings: much-decorated Marshal Ivan S. Konev, who, as boss of all Warsaw Pact troops in 1956, had a hand in crushing the Hungarian freedom fighters...
Major Force. S.A.O. makes no secret of its plans for a "decentralized and corporative" metropolitan France, should it ever come to power. Its political ideas echo those of the discredited Vichy regime of Marshal Petain in World War II. In the prevailing gloom, even former "moderate" Europeans in Algiers accept the S.A.O. line. Said one: "S.A.O. next year will be a major force not only in France but in Europe. It will be Europe's sole effective anti-Communist organization...
...idol is Pakistan's Sandhurst-trained soldier-boss, Field Marshal Mohammed Ayub Khan, who shares the same jaundiced view of democracy available too soon in a largely illiterate nation. For weeks, Pak and his fellow junta leaders, all soldiers, studied Ayub's techniques and pondered the advice of the new U.S. ambassador in Seoul, Samuel Berger. Berger's practical counsel: Hang on to power if you will, but give the people some timetable for a return of democracy. Pak has done just that. Last week he announced that the reins of government will indeed be handed back...