Word: generalissimo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Also from Italy came details of material help to Generalissimo Franco. Dictator Benito Mussolini's controlled press told how, in the last two months, new equipment had been sent from Italy to Spain, including more machine guns, better artillery, bigger reserves of munitions. Previously described was the Italian "Legion of the Air" in Spain, working out of Majorca, and its system of "chain bombing of murderous intensity" over Loyalist territory...
Most embarrassed by these disclosures was British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, who has said many times that he took Il Duce's word for it that Italian help to Generalissimo Franco would be reduced, not increased. Three months ago a token withdrawal of 10,000 Italian troops from Spain took place. On that showing Mr. Chamberlain implemented an Anglo-Italian treaty. Although Dictator Mussolini was expected to demand of the Prime Minister at Rome next week (see p. 21) that Britain grant belligerent rights to Rebel Spain, from London last week came hints that Mr. Chamberlain, for his part...
...secret has it been that Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's Government has long needed a housecleaning. Inefficiency, corruption, jealousy and nepotism- old Chinese official vices-have hampered China in waging her war almost as much as lack of guns and ammunition. Japan having seized most of China's coastline and the Chinese having been driven far westward, it was in character that some of China's leaders should turn defeatist and respond to the lure of Japanese offers of position and gold...
Fortnight ago former Premier Wang Ching-wei, prominent Nationalist Party leader and member of China's United Resistance Front, suddenly flew from Chungking, the temporary capital, to Hanoi, capital of French Indo-China. From there, it was reported last week, he sent a telegram to Generalissimo Chiang declaring that Japanese "proposals" of late December (which, if accepted, would have made China a Japanese puppet state) constituted a "fair" basis for peace discussion...
Some Far Eastern observers, who knew the devious methods of Oriental politics figured this was a mere "trial balloon" of the Generalissimo. This week, however, this notion was set at rest. At a meeting in Chungking Mr. Wang was read out of the party for "deserting his post and suing for peace in contradiction to national policy." Some 200 Wang followers were arrested...