Word: generalissimoing
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...trim khaki, eschewing gold braid and gaudy epaulets, the 1935 model Chinese field marshals, generals and satraps gathered in Nanking last week. Almost every Chinese of importance was there. Never before had China's Methodist Dictator, Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, drawn around himself quite so many of China's military élite. Even the great has-been among Chinese war lords, strapping, whimsical and always surprising "Christian Marshal" Feng Yu-hsiang, trekked down from his retirement near the Tai Shan ("Sacred Mountain") to announce good humoredly that he is "now a devout Buddhist...
...official photographer disappeared under his black cloth, Chinese cameramen began to snap. Suddenly out of a Chinese camera was whipped a pistol. Bang, bang, bang! Three bullets winged Premier Wang in the arm, neck and abdomen. As he crumpled, the pantherlike Generalissimo and China's whole quick-triggered élite were returning the assassin's fire...
...revolution which upset the Imperial Manchu Throne in 1911. Last week's Sun was promptly branded a "Communist." Millions of Chinese considered him a patriot, hoped pro-Japanese Premier Wang was dying, regretted that Sun had not shot also China's pro-Japanese Kingpin, the Generalissimo...
China's slim, brisk Nationalist Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek last week got the ominous news that four Japanese major generals were closeted in Dairen to draw up a "new policy" toward China. Unless Chiang's Nationalist Kuomintang Party starts acting as if it were really pro-Japanese, Japan, according to the four major generals, will feel obliged to detach China's five rich northern provinces from Nanking's rule, set up puppet governors and collect revenues...
Canton's head man, Marshal Chen Chi-tang, seized the moment to insult Nanking and Generalissimo Chiang: "The Southeast will never witness a duplication of the spectacle of more than 100,000 Chinese soldiers evacuating an immense area without firing a shot in obedience to demands of the heads of the Japanese Army. . . . If Nanking orders the Southeast to agree to any unreasonable Japanese demands, we would refuse to obey and would stand up and tight for China's rights...