Word: generalissimoing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Middle Ages, the naming of new bishops had become the prerogative of Popes, who frequently reassigned the right to kings in return for political favors. A vestige of this procedure remains in the concordats that the church maintains with some traditionally Catholic countries; in Spain, for example, Generalissimo Franco has the right to designate nominees for vacant sees...
Spain has not held a direct parliamentary election since the Civil War engulfed it in 1936. Last week, as one of several liberalizing steps taken recently by Generalissimo Francisco Franco, the country prepared for at least a token return to democratic rule. It opened a national campaign that will end Oct. 10 when Spaniards take the unaccustomed step of going to the polls...
...world's first Boy Scout, who won his original fame for his defense of Mafeking during the Boer War, turns out to have been a very shrewd operator indeed. At a time when one bemedaled British generalissimo after another was getting his cavalry pants shot oft by those hairy, puritan Dutch farmers in South Africa, Colonel Baden-Powell turned himself into just the sort of hero his country was yearning for. His own reports about his stand at Mafeking gave the folks at home a rare excuse to dance in the streets, get patriotically drunk, and sing God Save...
Secrecy. Disclosure of Spain's contract with null marked the end of 21 years of secret and almost byzantine negotiations. For as soon as Spanish geologists found the rich phosphate vein back in 1963, Generalissimo Franco's ministers forbade publication of any hint of the discovery. They had good reason for their reticence. The political situation in northern Africa has long been touchy: both Morocco and Mauritania claim the Spanish Sahara. Occasionally, they have gone so far as to threaten to back up their claims with force. Moreover, Spain has been under mounting pressure...
Painful Decision. Luce's greatest postwar sorrow was the fall of China to the Communists in 1949. A staunch supporter and friend of Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, Luce had nonetheless seen the Red handwriting on the wall. In 1946 he visited Nanking while the mission of General George Marshall was trying to effect a peace between the Kuomintang and the Communists. There, he went to see Chou Enlai, who was then the head of the Chinese Communist mission. Over steaming cups of tea, Chou professed to be weary of the negotiations, said that he would like to visit...