Word: generalissimoing
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Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina was the little brown bandit who ruled the Dominican Republic as President from 1930 to 1938. He then refused a third term "following United States precedent" and now rules instead as generalissimo of the army. He was much put out this past year as he watched the parade of other Latin-American strongmen to Washington: Cuba's Batista, Nicaragua's Somoza, Brazil's Aranha and Monteiro (TIME, Nov. 14, et seq.). All these received official invitations, were saluted, handshaken, welcomed at the White House. But for Dictator Trujillo, no invitation came...
Soon this addendum cut off most U. S. arms and ammunition, including airplane parts, from the Loyalists while Generalissimo Franco continued to get most of what he wanted from the Axis. So the Spanish war went on to its bitter end and the U. S. was not involved...
...China's temporary capital; last week he was reported about to become Japan's No. 1 puppet at Peking, seat of the North China Government. From Chungking to Peking these days is a longer distance ideologically than geographically, and the fact that Mr. Wang, elder revolutionary, onetime collaborator with Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, one of the old "Big Three" in Chinese affairs,* has made the ideological as well as geographical trip was quite a victory for Japan's China diplomacy...
Wang Ching-wei and Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek are temperamentally poles apart, but even after the war began they continued to work together. As deputy leader of the Party, Wang Ching-wei followed the Government on its trek from Nanking to Hankow to Chungking. But last winter he took his sons out of school, sent them out of the country, packed up his own belongings and one night left Chungking secretly for Hanoi, French Indo-China, and Hong Kong. The old Oriental instincts for compromise had got the better of him, and he declared himself for "peace" with Japan. Chiang...
...Other "Big Three" members: Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and the late Hu Han-min, longtime chief secretary...