Word: generalissimoing
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Chinese reaction to the plan to temporize with Japan was prompt and bitter. Owen Lattimore, U.S. political adviser to Chiang Kaishek, cabled: "I have never seen the Generalissimo really agitated before. . . . [This] would dangerously increase Japan's military advantage in China. . . . The Generalissimo questions his ability to hold the situation together if the Chinese national trust in America is undermined...
...Government the hour of decision in China rapidly approached. The issue: should the U.S. openly and forcefully support the Government of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek in its fight against the Chinese Communists? If not, how else could the traditional U.S. policy of a free, united and democratic China be maintained...
...issue came to a head when Generalissimo Chiang asked the U.S. to fly another Chinese army to the North. The decision was put up to Washington's powerful "Committee of Three," the heads of the State, War and Navy Departments...
...Unless the U.S. was prepared immediately to state a strong policy in support of Chinese unification under Generalissimo Chiang, and to leave in China the forces necessary to execute this policy, it should withdraw from China...
...does not implement a strong policy, Generalissimo Chiang's forces will be driven from Manchuria, and perhaps all North China, by the Communists. China will be divided...