Word: generalissimoing
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...Chungking was only mildly disturbed. Tokyo has often made the boast before. Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek occupied himself on Chungking's South Bank, correcting the proofs of his new book. Chungking spokesmen declined to tremble...
...Generalissimo, too, was in for a change. She took him walking every morning and told him Bible stories, until he became a Christian...
Dirty Politics. In December 1936, Madame went to Shanghai for a rest; she was ill. The Generalissimo flew up to Sian in the northwestern province of Shensi to put down the Red foolishness once & for all, and to discipline some insubordinate Central Government troops who preferred fighting Japanese to fighting Communists. He was in for a surprise...
...better take to the mountain behind the house. Dressed only in his nightshirt and without his false teeth, he tried to leave by a side door. It was locked. He and two of his men had to climb a ten-foot wall. On top of it the Generalissimo slipped and fell into the moat outside, a drop of 30 feet. For three minutes he could not move. Then a number of bodyguards helped him up the mountain. The Generalissimo fell into a cave that was hidden by thorny shrubs, and lay there, exhausted. Later soldiers found him. "Let us fire...
Said Chiang: "I am the Generalissimo...