Word: generalissimoing
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...thought to the tangled Pacific command situation, and devoutly hoping an Army man would get the top place. Its "asking price" was that the job should go to MacArthur. But the Army knew that the Navy was likely to take a dim view of MacArthur as generalissimo...
From Chungking for the occasion came a scroll which, inscribed in President Chiang Kai-shek's own hand, bore a happy token for the future of China House and U.S.-Chinese friendship. Wrote the Generalissimo: "The way is one and the winds blow together...
Reclaiming Lost Legions. The Chinese high command tried to weaken the Jap blow by staging a diversion far to the north, around Ichang on the Yangtze River. But Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek knew that something more than a diversion was needed. Even as Hengyang was falling, he had put the finishing touches to a plan for Army reform which would doubtless meet opposition from vested military interests, a plan whose terms proclaimed that all was far from well in China's war-worn Army. Its chief points...
Meanwhile reports persisted that Chungking was shaky. A crisis, or a political reorientation, might be approaching. What role would astute Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek play? What would the Chinese Communists...
...Generalissimo flew into a rage. The official quailed before one of Chiang's famed tongue-lashings. Finally Chiang ordered the conscripts unroped. Then he stalked home and issued another order-for an investigation...