Word: generalissimo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Novosibirsk. 1,500 miles from the Manchurian frontier, surveyed the situation. Soon he announced that the Red Russian positions were being constantly harassed by White Russian (ex-Tsarist) mercenary troops in the pay of the Chinese. Soon subordinate commanders on the Soviet front received this telegram from their new Generalissimo: YOU ARE DIRECTED TO EXTERMINATE ALL WHITE RUSSIAN FORCES WHICH ARE MENACING OUR LINES...
...loud, exultant hosannahs and cries of "Christ is King" they sat down and soon partook of the feast of the Eucharist. Untroubled by the transitory rebel occupation of Cocula, General Calles wired to President Emilio Portes Gil: "I have the honor to inform you that the traitor Escobar (rebel generalissimo) continues to flee without fighting, and we continue our advance...
Years afterwards during the War, a trembling orderly faced the Tiger, who had dashed out from Paris to confer with Generalissimo Foch. "He is at Mass, M. le President," stammered the orderly. "Shall I tell him you are here...
Paradoxically Tiger and Generalissimo became estranged in the very dawn of victory. Foch, knowing that the Germans were about to sue for an armistice, asked Clemenceau what were the political terms on which the Allied statesmen desired to conclude peace. In effect the Tiger replied that Foch should mind his own business, conclude a purely military Armistice, and keep his nose out of the Peace Conference. Stung to the quick of pride, the Generalissimo obeyed these instructions literally, and, having concluded the Armistice, washed his hands of the Peace with these icy words to Clemenceau, "M. Le President, my work...
...most astounding application of these principles was the complete reversal of the Allied plan of campaign in 1918, when Ferdinand Foch was given supreme command as Generalissimo. So irresistible seemed the German advance in those black days that the Allies were preparing to abandon Paris...