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Last week the man who has been fighting the Japanese longer than any other world leader gave his answers to some of the war's persistent questions. In Chungking, at his first press conference since 1941 (see FOREIGN NEWS), Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek gave this estimate of the situation...
There were special victory awards for Marshal Stalin too. By decree of the Supreme Soviet he became the second living European to receive the title of Generalissimo (the first: Generalissimo Francisco Franco). Generalissimo Stalin was also awarded the Order of Victory, the Gold Star Medal of Hero of the Soviet Union, and the Order of Lenin...
...China's ninth year of war, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek spoke to the U.S. Said the Generalissimo, at his first Chungking press conference in almost four years...
...return home. In France, the French defeat in Syria had raised new questions about the leadership of General Charles de Gaulle. Would he still be strong enough, by the time of France's national election next fall, to keep the right and left in suspended solution? In Spain, Generalissimo Francisco Franco's position had been further weakened by the snub given him by the United Nations' Conference on International Organization in San Francisco. Italian leaders, after seesawing for weeks, had at last formed a new Government but were promptly faced by a new crisis. Even in Britain...
...Communists will boycott the P.P.C. because Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek has rejected their demands for "coalition government and other democratic reforms." (Chungking-Yenan unity negotiations broke down when Yenan refused to surrender control of its army to the National Government or to place it under the command of a U.S. Chief of Staff.) With an eye to future blame, Yenan added: The Kuomintang "proposes to use the P.P.C. and the constitutional convention as a preparation for civil war." (The Communists and the National Government have been carrying on a civil war almost uninterruptedly since...