Word: generalissimo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Meanwhile, at Shanghai, the French Colony was displaying such complacence toward the new Chinese Nationalist Government that U. S. and British residents in the French quarter expressed uneasiness lest the French intended to allow Chiang Kaishek, the Chinese Nationalist Generalissimo, to assume control of the French Concession. Since U. S. and British marines were heaping up more sandbags and stringing more barbed wire every day to defend their quarter, the attitude of the French and Japanese caused extreme resentment among Anglo-Saxons at Shanghai...
This prodigious series of victories was not won even largely by force of arms. Chiang is the first modern generalissimo to advance with a veritable army of spies and propaganda agents proceeding his military columns months beforehand, filtering into the enemy camp, and persuading enemy soldiers to desert to the banner of "China for the Chinese." Withal, though he is careful to wear no distinguishing mark on his uniform, Chiang is a conqueror of dominating mien, not a comradely Bolshevik backslapper. He has publicly disavowed Bolshevism; and he is much more dangerous to the Great Powers than if he were...
...officers or their wives spitted on sharp stakes when displeased, and keeps a likely string of concubines. At Peking, Chang reaffirmed to correspondents his violent antipathy to Bolshevism, and roundly declared that his troops were hastening southward and would drive the Nationalists out of Shanghai. At Shanghai Nationalist Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek told news- gatherers that "as soon as possible" his armies would press on to capture Peking. Will Chang fight Chiang? Great battles between them seemed inevitable last week, but it was probable that their secret agents were even then chaffering and hornswoggling in an effort to patch...
...Central Executive Committee of the Nationalist party at Hankow. The Committee is extremely potent, similar to the Communist Executive Committee which dominates Soviet Russia. When the Chinese committee assembled at Hankow, last week, it was the sense of the meeting that its members wished to relieve their Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek from his command-despite the capture of Shanghai by his troops. Such a knifing in the back by civilians of a successful commander would be almost unprecedented. Contradictory despatches, gave the impression that the Committee, although definitely on record as desiring to oust General Chiang and take control...
...suspiciously quiet last week. Suddenly the subordinate Northern general* in command of Shanghai's immediate defenses went over to the Southern enemy, ordered the 2,000 troops under his command to withdraw back toward Shantung whence they came only a fortnight ago (TIME, March 7). Simultaneously the Southern generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek launched a swift attack to cut the Shanghai-Nanking railway at Soochow. The fall of Soochow (reported but unconfirmed) would cut off the Northern armies of the "two great Changs"† from hastening to defend Shanghai and leave the Shanghai area defenseless against the conquering Southern "Nationalist...