Word: generalissimoing
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...Army hotly denied that its telegram to Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek fortnight ago, notifying him that its objectives had been reached, was a plea for peace. It was nothing more, said Army spokesmen, than an old Chinese custom-after an overwhelming victory, offer the beaten enemy merciful terms. But the Army could not deny that it had failed to send similar telegrams after its victories at Shanghai, Nanking, Hankow. Three days after the newly assembled straw army of Puppet-elect Wang Ching-wei was reported in revolt, Premier Yonai assured the Diet that the forthcoming installation of Puppet Wang would...
...peace likely? As long as Japanese soldiers remain on South Chinese soil, no. As long as the Japanese refuse to discuss terms with Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek himself-not the "Chungking Government"-no. A remote chance for peace (for a time) lies in the Japanese withdrawing to the five occupied northern provinces, the Chinese conceding them. But if the war drags on-for six months, a year, two-Japan may slip off the rope to the end of which she has so nearly come. If that happens, if Japan's military economy collapses, then all Hirohito's horses...
...thing, a new army landed on the coast of Fukien Province (about halfway between Shanghai and Hong Kong).It was a pathetic puppet army, and its generalissimo was a poet, scholar, gentleman, politician, anything but a fighter-Puppet-elect Wang Ching-wei. The Japanese said it was made up of 50,000 Chinese who love the New Order. Its name, which only the Japanese could have devised: The Peace and National Reconstruction Army...
This did not mean peace. Not until the Japanese are driven or withdraw from all China will Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek even talk peace. But it did mean a breather for weary China, and it meant, too, that even if Japanese armies can still whip the Chinese, economic and political troubles in Tokyo have seriously checked the Japanese army...
...hobbled in on canes* to apologize for having to shift this meeting from England (the last was in France, at Amiens), later described the gathering as "formidable" ("tremendous"). Originally the Council consisted of four men: Britain's Prime Minister Chamberlain and Lord Chatfield, France's Daladier and Generalissimo Gamelin. This time Mr. Chamberlain took with him four members of his Cabinet-Lord Halifax (Foreign Affairs), Winston Churchill (Admiralty), Oliver Stanley (War), Sir Kingsley Wood (Air)-plus a number of underling specialists and General Sir Edmund Ironside, chief of the British Imperial General Staff, and Admiral of the Fleet...