Word: generalissimo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week in Europe there were a few signs that fear of immediate war was ebbing. In London war-insurance rates were cut. Belgium discharged one-third of the technical experts recently called to the colors at Antwerp. Generalissimo Francisco Franco demobilized 200,000 Fascist troops. Moreover, it was thought that Dictator Benito Mussolini would scarcely let his beloved daughter, Countess Edda Ciano, sail for Brazil if he were on the warpath...
...Benito Mussolini's tens of thousands of soldiers were swaggering around the Spanish landscape during the recent civil war, Adolf Hitler's men modestly stayed in the background, playing a less conspicuous but no less effective role. II Duce sent not only airmen but infantrymen to help Generalissimo Francisco Franco conquer the stubborn Spanish Republicans. Spectacularly he took over the strategic island of Majorca as a bombing base, bombastically he bragged about the brave exploits of his legionnaires...
...first step toward legitimatizing the Hitler grab by according de facto recognition to Slovakia. They named Peter Pares, formerly a British consul in the Sudetenland, as consul at Bratislava. Britain also was the first big democratic power to urge recognition of Benito Mussolini's seizure of Ethiopia and Generalissimo Francisco Franco's victory in Spain...
...grey-walled city, last capital of the Mings 300 years ago, third capital of Chiang Kaishek, again got back to a sort of wartime normal. Crowds swarmed down Dujugai, main street of a city that has grown from 635,000 to an estimated 2,000,000 in six months. Generalissimo Chiang and his wife inspected the areas bombed in the earlier raids. The power plant was functioning again. A Harvard graduate named Theodore White went to his room in the Canadian-French mission school. The Associated Press correspondent stepped out of his office. Suddenly, out of the leaden...
When Francisco Franco restored his private property, Spain's ex-King Alfonso, exiled in Rome, donned the ecclesiastical-looking robes of the Spanish Military Order, meekly said: "I am a simple soldier, obedient to the orders of Generalissimo Franco...