Word: generalissimoing
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...main Havana postoffice, the docks, power plants, water works and tax collection offices. That was all. Most Government departments, which President Mendieta had filled with the supporters of his onetime allies, struck. The staff of a Havana insane asylum walked out, leaving inmates to themselves. Crowed bantam Generalissimo Batista: "This strike is a disgrace to the civilization of Cuba." He sent out his soldiers to scour Havana, sent Army planes swooping over the roof tops...
Nanking has an ornate and splendid new "White House," but President Lin modestly resides in a rented house. The White House, he seems to feel, should be occupied by the Nanking Government's real boss, Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek. But the Generalissimo's pose is precisely that he is not President. Last week the Chinese Communist armies, which the Government reports "almost exterminated" every few months, were again giving Generalissimo Chiang so much trouble that he placed himself at the head of forces rushing to avenge the murder of an Australian missionary. Left in command at Nanking...
...definitely Communist leanings, enjoins China to cooperate with Soviet Russia and with Germany which Saint Sun expected to continue Socialist, not foreseeing Hitler. Last week famed Imperial German General Hans von Seeckt, he of the genial monocle and steel-trap brain, retired from China's service after putting Generalissimo Chiang's armies into the snappiest, most efficient shape ever attained by a Chinese force. Although von Seeckt leaves a junior German officer in China as his successor, Japan is strenuously pressing Premier Wang, who is also Foreign Minister, to clean out the Germans and appoint Japanese military advisers...
...Senate! Senate! Where is the Senate? ... The Senate sits here and is being emasculated. You sit here with this political tyrant and generalissimo dyed with the stains of corruption. . . . You sit here and let this character pull off of us everything that means that we are a United States Senate. I do not mind being made ignominious, but I hate to be made ignominious by a man of that type...
What they were both getting at were Japan's renewed threats of War unless China accepts Japanese "tutelage." If China's Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek is willing to sell Japan a stranglehold on Chinese trade, finance and defense, Japan will do the handsome thing with an $85,000,000 loan. While Chiang mournfully pondered this offer, the Japanese Diet briskly passed Japan's all-time high in budgets, which gives $318,000,000 or 53% for "defense...