Word: generalissimoing
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...their greeting to the New Year, the various Spanish leaders, White and Red, delivered bombastic harangues all about the People, God, Culture, Communism and whatnot. White Generalissimo Francisco Franco had left the deadlocked siege of Madrid, flown south to sunny Seville and was starting an entirely new White offensive to drive the Spanish Cabinet of Premier Francisco Largo Caballero, which fled from Madrid months ago, out of Valencia. Various airmen who flew for Largo Caballero before the bulk of his Soviet flyers arrived were trickling out of Spain last week. Said Chicago Airman Hal Du Berrier, reaching Paris...
...official quarters that Der Führer had sent General Wilhelm Faupel, the "German envoy to the Spanish Government of President Franco" hurrying back to Spain with official assurances of further German support for the Whites. Simultaneously about 10,000 additional Italians landed in Spain to join up with Generalissimo Franco- this mere 10,000 being what II Duce last week meant by "going easy" (see p. 20). In London the anti-Fascist and pro-Socialist Daily Herald raged: "There is a Levantine streak in the man [Mussolini] which delights in such sharp practices...
...program, and we do not believe he will become sincerely proCommunist. Nor do we think the Soviets will give him much aid, because his anti-Communist record of so many years is against him in Moscow. We forecast that Dr. Kung will soon become Premier of China to relieve Generalissimo Chiang of some of his responsibilities and leave him in full command of the Army...
Unquestionably cashhe kidnappee must lead China into an immediate war with Japan (TIME, Dec. 21 et seq.)arrive in ostentatious military regalia. The Generalissimo changed to civilian clothes and flew ahead to Nanking, followed two hours later by the Young Marshal in a cheap Chinese cotton-lined robe, veritable sackcloth & ashes. The Generalissimo was met by China's elderly Puppet President Lin Sen and 200,000 cheering Nankingese. The kidnapper drove quietly through back streets to settle down as the house guest of Ransomer T. V. Soonganding out thousands of words evidently concocted by mutual agreement to dispose of China...
...considered likely that the Young Marshal, flush with millions, will travel for a time abroad and ultimately be given another Chinese Army under the Generalissimo. Joy in China at the happy ending of the crisis reached such transports that even that uncompromising teetotaler, "The Christian Marshal" Feng Yu-hsiang, announced as a matter of national moment, "I have drunk a full glass of wine, toasting the deliverance of the Generalissimo...