Word: generalissimoing
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...reciprocate the honors bestowed by King George VI when he visited the front before Christmas, France's Generalissimo Maurice Gamelin rode his special train to the town where Great Britain's General the Viscount Gort has his chateau-headquarters. With crack detachments of the Welsh Guards and 8th French Zouaves looking on, the bantam Generalissimo stood on tiptoe, lifted his stubby grey mustache and brushed it brusquely against both cheeks of: 1) towering General Sir Edmund Ironside, Britain's Chief of Imperial General Staff; 2) more reachable Lord Gort. In the name of President Lebrun he pinned...
...civil war, Spain carried on a thriving trade with France and Great Britain. With France trade was nearly always balanced, but with Britain Spain usually had a big export surplus, which gave her pounds sterling to use in world markets. The civil war finished all that, but long before Generalissimo Francisco Franco's final victory, Spain had a substitute. Nazi traders moved in in numbers and organized an extensive, mutually satisfactory German-Spanish barter trade...
...civil war's end Generalissimo Franco, still holding a grudge against Britain and France for their long refusal to recognize his Government, snubbed British and French commercial agents, although what Spain needed to recover was trade and more trade. The French sent their distinguished soldier, 83-year-old Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain, to deal with the reluctant Spaniards, but even he had to cool his heels while waiting for audiences with Spanish officials...
Then came World War II and with it a British-French blockade of German ports, German-Spanish trade dwindled. Oranges piled up on Valencia's docks, the iron ore of the Basque littoral could no longer be shipped to Hamburg. Generalissimo Franco, although holding Britain and France responsible for this "absurd" war, agreed to talk trade. For three months Frenchmen and Spaniards dickered. Once France broke off negotiations, said that ungrateful Spain did not realize the extent of her concessions. Spain retaliated by closing her border to what little trade had been allowed to cross the French frontier...
...trade, expected to reach a volume valued at 650,000,000 francs in a few months, will be balanced. A British-Spanish trade pact providing for much greater trade is expected to follow. With that concluded, Spain's commerce will return to the prewar trade status and Generalissimo Franco's Government, despite its ideological sympathies with the Nazis, will find its commercial interests with the Allies...