Word: generalissimo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Forest fires on mountain slopes in the Leftist-held Ebro River salient last week brought a Rightist offensive to a sudden halt, resulted in the 26-month-old war's quietest week. Rightist Generalissimo Francisco Franco himself commanded during the early part of this drive. Mentioned casually, however, last week in a Rightist communiqué as the new commander of the Ebro offensive was able, forceful General Juan Yague, who directed the successful Rightist offensive last spring. This meant that General Yague, relieved of his command-rumored even to have been put in jail-because of an "indiscreet" speech...
Meanwhile, last week, Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, although continuing to evacuate Hankow and evidently believing he cannot defend it much longer, launched a Chinese offensive at the Japanese in boggy, half-flooded, malarial country near Kiukiang, 135 miles down the Yangtze River below Hankow. Even skeptical foreign observers were inclined to take at face value last week the Chinese claim that this desperate counteroffensive threw the Japanese back for heavy losses on the whole width of a 45-mile salient...
...Changkufeng Hill. Moscow claimed that the Japanese officers on the spot had refused to sign even a provisional map until they received further orders from Tokyo. Japanese papers fed the public with whoppers about how "our soldiers have been generously feeding the starving Soviet troops," charged that Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek had been in radio communication with Soviet Far Eastern Army Marshal Vasily Bluecher, begging him to restart the Russo-Japanese war as the only means of diverting the Japanese from capturing Hankow...
...Army was at its hottest fortnight ago, Japanese aviators bombed Chinese cities only halfheartedly. Last week they redoubled their bombing zeal over the triplet Wuhan cities (Hanyang, Wuchang, Hankow), killed at least 1,000 people, damaged five U. S. mission properties. With the final battle for Hankow approaching, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek removed as much factory machinery as possible and shipped it upriver with Hankow's 500,000 fleeing civilians...
...During the day it is His Britannic Majesty's Government, while from nightfall to daybreak it is the rebels' government," cracked Arab villagers. The Oozlebarts, operating under an "unknown generalissimo" with headquarters at Damascus, have set up their own civil and military courts. Arab villagers prefer to take their squabbles to Oozlebart civil courts, which apply Islamic law and charge nothing (Palestine court fees are notoriously high). Oozlebart military courts dispense quick justice, sometimes death, to Arabs caught selling land to Jews...