Word: generalissimo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most potent men in China, one of the most trusted advisers of Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, is "Organizer Chen Li-fu" as he likes to be called. In organizing the "New Life Movement," the "Culture Control Movement" and other causes dear to the Generalissimo & Mme Chiang right down to the "Read-a-Book Movement," no Chinese has won more kudos than Organizer Chen. Last week Hankow correspondents asked the Great Organizer to confirm or deny persistent rumors in high Chinese quarters that he has been advising the Generalissimo to make peace with Japan. Replied Chen Li-fu: "Our fundamental policy...
Scorched Canton. The famed "Scorched Earth Policy" of Generalissimo Chiang, to destroy everything of value in Chinese cities likely to be taken by the Japanese, reached its spectacular climax last week at Canton. Dynamite charges carefully laid a few days before under the principal public buildings, factories and utility plants of South China's No. 1 city and No. 1 port, were touched off as the Japanese approached. Great fires sprang up, blazed over an area of several square miles. With Canton spurting smoke and flame, Chinese dynamiters wrecked the $8,000,000 Pearl River Bridge. The foreign quarter...
Silver Bullets? The Chinese who had commanded Canton's defenses, General Yu Han-mou, Military Governor of Kwangtung Province, ceremoniously surrendered to the Japanese. His Chinese enemies accused him of taking "Silver Bullets" (bribes), his Chinese friends warmly defended him. They said the Generalissimo had withdrawn so many troops from South China, believing the Japanese would not attack Canton until after they seized Hankow, that when the surprise offensive came fortnight ago it was impossible to do more at Canton than carry out the "Scorched Earth" orders, duly executed under General...
Most interested spectator of the Italian leave-taking was a Britisher, Francis Hemming, secretary of London's Non-intervention Committee. No secret is it that by this "token" withdrawal both Dictator Benito Mussolini and Generalissimo Franco hope to persuade Britain and France to grant belligerent rights to Rightist Spain. To New York Times Correspondent William P. Carney, however, Mr. Hemming said that Italian aviators, artillerymen and technicians as well as infantrymen ought to be withdrawn...
...withdrawal of the invader. Restore to us our trampled-on rights as the legitimate Government. In a few months, perhaps in a few weeks, peace will come spontaneously." In short, without foreign intervention and with belligerent rights granted to the Government, the Leftists claim they could soon lick Generalissimo Franco...