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Portugal has a standing army of less than 30,000 men and 600 light machine-guns on a single order was obviously ridiculous. Dictator Salazar's Portugal is now an unofficial ally of Generalissimo Franco's Rightist Spain. So there was no reasonable doubt whither the 600 machine guns were destined...
...Nothing so simple as a direct municipal election is possible in the China of Chiang Kaishek. Shanghai's mayoralty with the administration of a budget of $3,000,000-one of the most important jobs in the East-is a direct appointment from Generalissimo Chiang. For five years Shanghai's mayor was suave General Wu Te-chen who became a national hero in the Japanese invasion of 1032 Last March Generalissimo Chiang decided that Mayor Wu might be getting to be too much of a hero, kicked him upstairs to the difficult post of Governor ot Kwangtung...
Most embarrassing of all Generalissimo Francisco Franco's followers is the famed "Radio General," hoarse-voiced, bibulous General Gonzalo Queipo de Llano y Sierra, commander of the Rightist southern armies. Once such an ardent Republican that he was exiled by Alfonso XIII, Queipo de Llano quickly turned to fascism, was an active leader in the present civil war when Francisco Franco was still in Morocco. A violent self-advertiser, Queipo de Llano's frequent personal broadcasts have become one of the high spots of the war. When his language grows too indiscreet his own electricians sometimes...
Quickly correspondents in Loyalist Spain translated this as an admission that the potent Rightist assault against Madrid of fortnight ago had broken down. For many weeks they have been aware that the Italian and German advisers of Generalissimo Franco, gathering daily in the heavily guarded headquarters directly opposite the west door of Salamanca Cathedral, have advocated two different plans of campaign for the remainder of the summer. Basically the German scheme was to immunize every front but Madrid, try to lure the Leftists into one more half baked offensive, always fruitful of casualties, and then mass every available man from...
Weeks had elapsed since the Generalissimo was reported to be actually sending units of China's crack troops ("Chiang's Own") northward to throw the Japanese out of the Peiping area. Japanese airmen, still looking for these Chinese forces last week, flew 85 miles down the railway up which the Chinese were supposed to be coming and impudently bombed the important city of Paoting. In a further provoking challenge to Dictator Chiang, Japanese obtained the resignation of his subordinate commanding in North China, General Sung Cheh-yuan, and set up in his stead General Chang Tsu-chung...