Word: generalissimoing
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...Hollywood Rightists called themselves "The Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals." Purpose: to correct "the growing impression that this industry is made up of and dominated by communists, radicals and crackpots." The Generalissimo is urbane, greying Sam Wood, who diluted For Whom the Bell Tolls so that Spanish Fascists became "nationalists" and Spanish Republicans came out like the American G.O.P. His general staff includes Walt Disney, Rupert Hughes, one writer from Republic Studios, and ten Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer executives, faithful minions of Tycoon Louis B. Mayer. Gary Cooper, Hemingway's Spanish Republican hero, ate dinner with...
...commander admitted that a southern China port must be opened before the armies of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek can be rearmed. But "Vinegar Joe," who probably knows China better than any brasshat in New Delhi, stoutly held that the "Hump" air route and the Ledo Road can fill the immediate gap in China's desperate needs, thus fit into the general Asia strategy...
Winston Churchill, Generalissimo & Madame Chiang Kai-shek and Joseph Stalin were among the rare birds whose watercolor portraits (after John James Audubon) were shown in Manhattan's Raymond & Raymond gallery last week (see cut). Their natures were suitably described by their caricaturist, 31-year-old San Franciscan Justin Murray. Sample: "Protectus Defendus (Joseph Stalin) -RANGE: Unpredictable. HABITAT: Enjoys sub-zero temperatures and thick, slimy mud. Remarkably mobile, he is frequently found far behind his enemies' nests. IDENTIFICATION: A large, tough bird-much tougher than anyone imagined. VOICE: Seldom heard. FOOD: Feeding habits are almost entirely beneficial...
Some Washington dopesters wondered whether Diplomat Grew was advance man for a new official U.S. line, based on an understanding with Britain and China. This suspicion was strengthened by the New Year's Day message of China's Chiang Kaishek. Said the Generalissimo, who is the man to see about the Japanese future: at Cairo he and Messrs. Roosevelt & Churchill had agreed...
...world's half-conquered but still-resisting nations, China has fought the longest. Savage Japanese air and land attacks, against soldiers and civilians alike, might well have made the Chinese vengeful. But in Chungking last week, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek spoke reasonably of the Japanese, repeating to the world what he had told President Roosevelt at Cairo...