Word: generalissimoing
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Sent congratulations to Generalissimo Stalin on his 66th birthday...
...nation which still puts her scholars before her soldiers audibly protested. Students staged sympathy walkouts in other cities. Kuomintang partisans blamed the incident on "malicious elements." But Generalissimo Chiang, who was opposing Communist extremists in the north, now turned on Kuomintang extremists in Kunming. He dismissed the city's garrison commander, General Kwan Lin-cheng. He sent his Vice Minister of Education, Chu Ching-nung, to make an inquiry and offer amends. For hurling the fatal grenades, two men were executed on the spot of the crime...
...Then the Generalissimo, having demonstrated that he, too, wanted civil peace, urged the students to return to their classes. They would not go back, they answered, until the ban on public meetings was lifted...
There was still an Axis-sponsored dictator left in Europe, but Generalissimo Francisco Franco's turn seemed to be coming up. The U.S., Britain and France (Soviet Russia has never recognized him) were turning the heat on the pudgy dictator...
...coordination" between Japan and China. "A limited war was always our intention," he explained. "Throughout the war on both sides there were always those who hoped to be able to end the war by negotiated peace." Japan had indeed sought persistently to end the "China incident" by negotiations with Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, or somebody. The Generalissimo, even in direst straits, refused to listen; the other somebodies were of no avail...