Word: generalissimoing
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Japan is not fighting a united nation in China, but a restless coalition of Nationalists and Communists. Without the help of the Communist armies Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek cannot hope to defeat Japan. But Chiang must not pay so dearly for their help that, in the event of a victory over Japan, the Communists would control the Chinese Government. So Chiang has had to follow a flexuous policy of giving the Communists enough arms, money and freedom of action to keep them fighting against Japan, but not enough to let them maneuver themselves into a commanding position in South China...
Gibraltar. Germany has already intensified her part in the air war on Britain in the Mediterranean (see p. 28). If the Axis could take Gibraltar, Britain's hold on the Mediterranean would be threatened. Nobody outside the Axis and Spain knows yet what Hitler has cooked up with Generalissimo Francisco Franco. Since Hitler visited Spain last October the London-Washington Axis has wooed Spain, and Britain is reported to have strengthened the fortifications of Gibraltar on the land side. A campaign over the run-down railroads of Spain would be risky, but Germany may already have enough supplies...
...educated in Japan. He looks like an old-fashioned Chinese scholar, but has the exaggerated manners of a Japanese corporal. He has turned his political coat so often that it looks threadbare even in Nanking. He started out a Communist. In 1927 he was converted to the following of Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek. In 1928 he wrote a book on China's Hero Sun Yatsen, which Chinese now sneer at as his "knocking brick'' (Chinese used to knock on doors with a small brick; in this case, Mr. Chou was knocking at the door of politics...
Although the U. S. Government had not answered the Generalissimo's request by week's end, it had indicated its willingness to have the American Red Cross arrange for immediate shipments of essential foodstuffs, including a good-will cargo of wheat...
Bread, not Bayonets. At the western gateway to the Mediterranean, Generalissimo Francisco Franco, facing a foodless winter, turned to Britain and the U. S. with a plea for aid. From Britain, Franco asked credit, food and the lifting of the blockade to permit imports to reach Spain...