Word: generalissimoing
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...White House announcement, published only three months after Stilwell had been made the Army's sixth four-star general,* was a crisp, close-mouthed paragraph. It gave no explanation of General Stilwell's unceremonious removal from his glamorous list of jobs as 1) Chief of Staff to Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek; 2) Deputy to Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten. Commander in Chief of Allied Forces, Southeast Asia; 3) U.S. Commander of the China-Burma-India theater...
...September of this year, when China's military situation was at its grimmest in five years, Stilwell came back to Chungking to see his chief, the Generalissimo. With him came another American soldier. Suave, worldly Major General Patrick Hurley, emissary of the White House in high diplomatic affairs, settled down in Chungking to confer with the Generalissimo and work out a new solution for the Asia Command. The conferences proceeded. Pat Hurley was hopeful...
...middle of this delicate diplomatic situation, something unexpected happened. Something like an ultimatum was delivered to the Generalissimo, insisting that he give Stilwell full command of the Chinese armies. Whatever may have been its justification, it was a proposition that no self-respecting head of a state, at war more than seven years, could accept...
...Generalissimo Franco was in trouble. From the French side of the Pyrenees, Spanish Republicans who had fought with the F.F.I, made raids into Spain. Bloody skirmishes flared in the mountains...
...last the real friends of China were beginning to talk back to China's detractors. It was high time. For China desperately needed the U.S. and the U.S. needed China. But relations between President Roosevelt and Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek had never been worse...