Word: generalissimoing
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There was little immediate hope to offer. In Chungking Major General Albert C. Wedemeyer, the new U.S. military chief, hurried his defense plans in daily conferences with Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek. On one of China's gravest days in her seven years of war, General Wedemeyer was able to promise only a reasonable expectation-that the tide would be turned eventually by measures now in the making...
Chungking asked a question: now that Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek had strengthened his Government (TIME, Nov. 27), what about Foreign Minister T. V. Soong, the Gissimo's able, Harvard-trained brother-in-law? Once called "Asia's greatest statesman," T. V. Soong was an ace trouble shooter and efficiency expert in government. And what about the powerful Cheng Hsueh Hsi (Political Science Group), the organization of Chinese businessmen who favor swifter modernization of their country's political and economic structure...
...look now, Francisco," enemies of Generalissimo Franco chuckled last week, "but there's a big Bear behind...
From Moscow's Red Star had come an authoritative growl: "Generalissimo Francisco Franco's regime is an international problem that must be dealt with." Dictator Franco "and his German masters must understand that, having finished with the Germans, the United Nations will solve the Spanish problem also...
...Juntas & a Constellation. Britain's disclaimer, Moscow's growl, and the fact that one subject of conversation between Marshal Stalin and General de Gaulle (see above) would almost certainly be Generalissimo Franco, gave importance for the first time to the anti-Franco forces now loudly concentrating against the dictator in Mexico and Europe. They included two juntas and a constellation of politicos ranging from extreme leftists to royalists. But each of the juntas and most of the individuals detested each other almost as much as they did Franco...