Word: generalissimoing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Last week, Harold Stassen, peripatetic Republican presidential candidate, disclosed the full report of his recent conversation with Russia's Generalissimo Joseph Stalin. It went something like this...
Toasted in Absence. At 9 o'clock the Foreign Ministers, each with ten members of his staff, met again as guests of Generalissimo Stalin. They fed sumptuously on caviar, out-of-season cucumbers, fish salad, hot zakuski (hors d'oeuvres), consomme, fish, turkey, chicken, roast beef, suckling pig, ice cream, coffee and liqueurs. They drank some 20 toasts, in vodka, white and red wine, champagne. One toast, proposed by Stalin, was for an absent man: President Truman. After dinner, the guests saw The Stone Flower (TIME, Jan. 27), a gentle Russian fairytale film with only a faint overlay...
...Then the Generalissimo reminded his guests of the vacant premiership. Under the coalition agreement, the premier must be acceptable to all parties. "It is my thought," said he, "that Chang Chun take the post...
General Chang had often stood up for Generalissimo Chiang. In 1931, as mayor of Shanghai, Chang arrested militant student leaders on orders from Chiang. Five thousand fellow students thereupon invaded the municipal offices, captured Chang, and made him stand up (literally) for a day and a night, listening to speeches denouncing him and Chiang Kaishek. Released, Chang left the municipal building in an ambulance...
...forced back by the Japanese, Chiang gave old friend Chang the job of getting remote Szechwan province under control, in preparation for moving the capital to Chungking. He made Chang, himself a Szechwanese, the governor. But the close-knit Szechwan old guard refused to accept Chang. Thereupon the Generalissimo assumed the title of governor himself, worked Chang in as special assistant, and in 1940 slipped out from under, leaving Chang in charge...