Word: generalissimo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Correspondents who sought out the new President found the same slender, abstemious, almost frail Chiang Kai-shek of old. As Marshal and Generalissimo of all the Nationalist Armies his uniform was always that of a private, completely unadorned. Last week as President of the Government he received callers in austerest garb, after doffing his plain, dark, silken robe of office. Coldly, firmly...
...triumph dwarfs to insignificance that in which was fought the Great War? for China is four times as large as the total battle areas of Europe, with the Balkans thrown in. From the standpoint of manpower and gunpower the comparison of course, reverses itself; but none the less Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek commanded at one time not less than a third of a million armed Chinamen. From the short belt, which girdles his slender waist, hang, metaphorically, the scalps of a dozen conquered War Lords, among them that of the once dread Chang Tso-lin, who for a decade held...
...perhaps the first time in history a great army moved forward preceded by an army of spies and trained propagandists scarcely less great. Towns and garrisons which had grown restive under the exactions of the War Lords were induced to revolt spontaneously and went over to the Nationalists as Generalissimo Chiang's armies approached. Largely by such means and with very little fighting the Southern half of China was absorbed by Nationalism in barely two months! (TIME, Oct. 18, 1926). Not long after this staggering initial success, shrewd Chiang Kai-shek broke absolutely with the Soviet backers of the Nationalist...
...complete the conquest of China required some 20 months and pitted the Nationalist Generalissimo against the strongest armies and keenest brains which a coalition of Northern War Lords could fling against him in a Death struggle to retain their power. This part of Chiang's saga should be told at epic length, for it was marked by heroic vicissitudes. At one time, sorely defeated, the Generalissimo resigned his command and retired to his native village (TIME, Aug. 22, 1927). Within a few months he had cheered up, married a sister of the surviving widow of Dr. Sun Yatsen...
Ferdinand Foch was early nicknamed the "man of geometrical mind," later the "man of will," lastly the "Man of Victory." As the first he was Chief of the Ecole de Guerre; as the second a General of brilliant, pitiless strategy; and at last he became the Generalissimo of half the World. Of all the Marshals of France Foch is the most keenly intellectual...