Word: generalissimoing
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...snug atmosphere of Chiang Kaishek's sitting room-among the potted plants, old scrolls, Sung urns and leather chairs-the 20-year single-party monopoly of the Kuomintang (National People's Party) was, nominally, coming to an end. The Generalissimo ran his eye over the hand-charactered document. "Hao hao!" he exclaimed, "let us sign and have this copy as a souvenir." Across the agreement for a coalition government, the spokesman for the Young China Party, the Democratic Socialists, and the nonparty independents added their brushstroke signatures to Chiang's own Kuomintang endorsement...
...second more intimate lesson for foreigners (it concerned Joseph Stalin and his relations with his people) was contained in a letter from the Generalissimo to the magazine Bolshevik. In it, Stalin complained about the "panegyrics" in his own honor found everywhere in Russia. Some recent samples...
...last ten years, few leaders on the world stage have been so praised and so damned as Chiang Kaishek, the intense, durable revolutionary who is Generalissimo of China's Nationalist armies, President of China's Nationalist Government, and boss of China's Nationalist (or Kuomintang) Party. This week a growing list of Americans are at long last getting inside Chiang's shaven head...
...Generalissimo quotes Confucius: "The people may be made to follow a course of action, but they must not be expected to understand." From this, Chiang derives a guiding maxim: "To know is difficult, to act is easy." As developed in the supporting text, this maxim envisions a knowledgeable elite (the Kuomintang) which will "know" and rule the unenlightened mass of the people, according to the ancient precepts of "harmony," "benevolence," "justice," and "love...
...read his resignation in a slow, composed voice, using the Shanghai dialect. "Three times during the course of the last year I submitted my resignation. . . . The Generalissimo has finally granted my request." Then he described how the national currency had been secured by silver specie until 1935, when the U.S. policy of high prices for silver drained China's reserves, forcing her to adopt managed currency. Managed currency depended on the people and Government "exercising self-restraint"; there had been too little self-restraint. "The managed-currency system that saved China contained in it the germs of the poison...