Word: generalissimoing
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...House of Bourbon's golden fleur-de-lis dropped low last week. For days Generalissimo Francisco Franco's great yellow Mercedes-Benz, manned with chaffeur and aide, had waited in Lisbon to carry Don Juan to Spain. Juan had hesitated. Then suddenly, Franco's car was gone...
...Generalissimo's grip on the Army tightened. Royalist Lieut. General Alfredo Kindelan was ordered off to "confinement" in the Canaries, where once the Republic had tried to confine Franco. Franco's old friend Lieut. General Juan Vigon Suerodiaz moved into the Chief of Staff post. Command of the Valladolid region went to Don Juan's unfriendly cousin, Francisco Bourbon, Duke of Seville...
...division national army for China within 18 months. It ended the private army system, forbade the meddling of military area commanders in civilian affairs, promised the Communists, ten divisions in the new setup. Neutral U.S. professional soldiers would help both Communists and Government troops in the reorganization. Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek was given the power to appoint and relieve all officers, but if he felt obliged to break a Communist commander he was pledged to replace him with a candidate nominated by the senior Communist member of the Government...
...Able, Western-minded T. V. Soong, President of the Executive Yuan and the Generalissimo's brother...
Speculation. This answer set newsmen's ears flapping. Was the Generalissimo hinting at retirement? No one thought it likely, but if he did not run for President, who might? A list of the possibilities showed how the Generalissimo still stood head & shoulders above all his rivals and colleagues in political stature...