Word: eralissimo
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Died. H. H. (for Hsiang-hsi) Kung, 86, Nationalist Chinese banker politician who became brother-in-law to Ge eralissimo Chiang Kai-shek when he married into the powerful Soong banking family, as Finance Minister from 1933 to 1945 introduced the boon of standardized paper currency, but during his premiership (1939-45) was helpless against the war-wrought inflation that left China sliding toward bankruptcy, after which he was eased into honorary jobs and retirement in the U.S.; of heart disease; in Manhattan...
Polite War Secretary Oliver Stanley replied that Edmund had gone to France on the personal invitation of France's Gen eralissimo Maurice Gamelin, to see his father get the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor. It was "a very exceptional" visit ; probably no other children would be allowed to go to the war zone...
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