Word: generalissimoing
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...into several "Governments," the Hai Chi and Hai Shen picked the Canton Government of Sun Yat-sen in the south. Later they sold out to the great northern war lord, Wu Pei-fu, next to Chang Hsueh-liang, the son of Wu's archenemy; still later to Nanking Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek. Two years ago they blandly deserted once more to their old friends, the Cantonese navy. Last fortnight, completely unable to decide whom to desert to, they steamed out of Canton past the fire of the Cantonese land forts into the neutral British harbor of Hongkong to wait...
Because China has in wily and resourceful Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek a military leader who has set himself up as Dictator, he last week was the elected goat of all Chinese officialdom. Craven President Lin, craven Premier Wang and the whole craven Chinese Central Political Council met in Nanking just before offering champagne toasts to the Japanese Ambassador and solemnly adopted a resolution urging Chinese resistance to the Japanese but stating that they must naturally leave the supreme decision to Generalissimo Chiang who was in Szechwan Province fighting the Communists...
Amid all this Chinese woe there was one Great Power whose leader last week made a gesture friendly to Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek. Benito Mussolini sent to him as a gift a monster four- motored Italian bombing plane worth...
After killing 7,000 Communists in his recent drive, Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek bore the brunt of Chinese Soviet counter-attacks last week, operating from his field stronghold at Kweiyang. In press handouts the Generalissimo reported that Comrade Mao Tse-tung ("Chinese Lenin") now has no fixed headquarters or abode but moves with his Chinese Soviet Government in nomadic fashion from province to province. Moreover the Chinese Lenin was said to be so ill that he has to be carried on a stretcher...
...Over these bits of good news Generalissimo Chiang smacked his thin lips, enjoying tea with "Young Marshal" Chang Hsueh-liang. This gilded Chinese youth fell heir to the fabulous loot of his mighty War Lord sire, the late, great Chang Tso-lin, drinker of hot tigers' blood and toyer with hotter women. Last week the Young Marshal was still trying to make good, fooling around the Communist war zone in his shiny new Boeing plane...