Word: generalissimoing
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...city's commander, General Pai Chung-hsi, one of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's most trusted aides, was receiving China's pitiful best in reinforcements, arms and food. Kweilin and its strange hills, like inverted ice cream cones, began to bristle with improvised defenses: coolies dug broad trenches in the city's streets and vacant lots. The stage was set for the biggest, most fateful battle since Hankow...
...Chungking, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek addressed the nation, promised: "The coming year will not only bring us final victory, but will also witness the success of our national revolution." But he added a warning...
...miles of barbed wire entanglements; pillboxes fashioned from torndown buildings. It had the best fed, best armed, best uniformed soldiers remaining among China's tattered legions. For commander it had bald, white-gloved General Pai Chung-hsi, one of Kwangsi Province's best, fresh from talks with Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek. To aid Pai, General "Vinegar Joe" Stilwell sent every ounce of U.S. small arms, mortars and ammunition that could be spared from the tonnage flown over the Hump...
...junket removed Don from Washington in time to avert an explosive feud inside WPB (TIME, Sept. 4). Otherwise, the trip's purpose was something of a mystery. But Donald Nelson had bustled happily for 16 days through Chungking's mud and rain, conferred and consulted dynamically with Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and his advisers. The patient Chinese, even after seven years of war, were polite-in fact, they were so courteous and cooperative that Don Nelson fell in love with China. If the President will only allow it, he would rather like to go back to China...
...first day of their stay the Americans saw Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek. Next day they conferred with the Chinese Ministers of Economic Affairs and Communications, the Vice Minister of Finance, and others. They held a press conference, attended by almost 40 reporters, largely Chinese. Businessman Nelson took complete command of the situation, spoke with off-the-record frankness. The gist of his on-the-record remarks: the U.S. mission's primary purpose was to set up the means for licking Japan. But it was also going to study the economic situation, present and prospective, with a view to immediate...