Word: generalissimoing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Square and drew up before the massive red-and-black marble Mausoleum containing the mummified corpses of Lenin and Stalin.* As detachments of fur-capped policemen sealed off the approaches to the square, soldiers descended into the deep crypt, emerged bearing the rigid body of Stalin, clad in a generalissimo's uniform agleam with medals...
...noses, the U.S. saw that without the Brazzaville group, it probably would be unable to shelve the question of seating Red China this year (by having it declared a substantive issue-or one requiring a two-thirds majority). Pressure was brought to bear on Nationalist China's Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek by President Kennedy, Secretary of State Dean Rusk and Ambassador to Nationalist China Everett Drumright to give up his veto of Outer Mongolia. Chiang refused to budge; he feared that membership for Outer Mongolia was only the first step in the U.N. recognition of Red China. Bitterly...
...being inevitable. Recently, Formosa's dismay over U.S. diplomacy rose to such a degree that Ambassador Everett Drumright was summoned home for consultation. At his advice, the White House arranged for last week's state visit by Chen, 63, the official heir apparent to Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek...
...Spanish Civil War, that cruel testing ground for World War II, is now years past. The rest of the world passed on to bigger cataclysms and newer conflicts, but in Spain, the old antagonisms still color the landscape. When Generalissimo Francisco Franco's rebel troops finally triumphed, nearly 300,000 Loyalists landed behind bars as political prisoners. The number in jail has steadily declined. Some prisoners have been freed in amnesties. In 1958, to celebrate the coronation of Pope John XXIII, Franco released all prisoners with two years or less to serve. More have earned their freedom the hard...
...weekly series of International Seminar Forums opened last night with a defense of the policies of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek in Taiwan and a discussion of the political and educational systems in England today...