Word: generalissimoing
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...armies battled grimly forward in eastern China (see WORLD BATTLEFRONTS), Generalissimo Chiang Kai:shek streamlined his Government to keep political pace with them. In order to devote full time to his No. 1 job, strategy and the Army, he resigned his post as China's Premier. To succeed him, he appointed his brother-in-law, hustling, bustling, U.S.-trained Tse-veng Soong, who since last December has been Acting Premier. Simultaneously, another brother-in-law, H. H. Kung, also resigned as Vice President of the Executive Yuan. For some time, Kung has been seriously ill with kidney trouble...
...Chungking, for a talk with Marshal Joseph Stalin. One probable subject of conversation: Chungking's (and Russia's) relations with the Chinese Communists at Yenan. A lessening of China's internal struggle would please practically everybody. But it seemed unlikely that Premier Soong, any more than Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, would compromise on the basic issue which has shattered all efforts at agreement between the Communists and the Chinese Government-Yenan's insistence that it be permitted to maintain an independent army...
Driven by land-and-belly hunger, Haitians often slip across the boundary of the Dominican Republic, whose dictator is "Generalissimo" Rafael Leonidas Trujillo. In 1937, Trujillo's army massacred thousands of Haitian settlers, burned their bodies or tossed them into common graves...
...years had the Generalissimo and his one-party regime turned a more promising face toward liberalism and democracy. But from Yenan's one-party regime came only snorts of doubt and disapproval. The Seventh Chinese Communist Congress had just met. Communist Boss Mao Tse-tung, Communist Chief of Staff General Chu Teh and other party leaders bravely flexed their political muscles and claimed that they commanded a regular army of 910,000 men (last fall it was 570,000), 2,200,000 partisans, 1,200,000 party members and territories inhabited by 95,000,000 Chinese. They called Chiang...
...enthusiastic but necessarily incomplete report infected the Generalissimo, who instructed the Chinese National Resources Commission to continue the Savage investigation. To do this job, the Chinese asked the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation for technical help. They did not suggest a loan...