Word: generalissimoing
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BEFORE anything could be done, a special road had to be built from the nearest highway, and 800,000 tons of rocks had to be blasted out of the belly of the mountain. But to Generalissimo Franco in 1941 such obstacles were minor. Gradually, in the Valley of the Fallen, in memory of the million Spaniards killed during the Civil War, there rose the great monument and mausoleum where he and those who had died for the cause of "liberation" were to be buried...
Noodle shops throve on the celebration. Bunting and streamers festooned Taipei. And to avoid the well-wishing crush, Nationalist China's-Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek went off to his Sun Moon Lake retreat, passed a quiet 72nd birthday...
...thorn in the side of peace" so long as force was not employed, what was Washington ready to offer now that force was no longer being used against Quemoy? The Reds challenged Secretary of State Dulles to make good on his implicit offer to persuade Nationalist China's Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek to withdraw at least part of his forces from the offshore islands. Since Chiang and his ministers have repeatedly proclaimed they will do nothing of the kind, and in fact last week sent at least 1,000 more troops to Quemoy, the U.S. would presumably have...
...qualities of Francisco Franco as a ruler," said Arriba, "are infinitely superior to those of Emperor Augustus, Charles V, and Napoleon." Such men as Franco, concluded the Catholic Ya, "are the instruments of the highest designs of Providence." The Monarchist A.B.C. recalled Vichy Marshal Petain's remark that Generalissimo Franco's "is the cleanest sword in Europe." Only the Syndicalist paper Pueblo avoided sycophantic assent. Wrote Pueblo sharply: "We believe that rhetoric is indissolubly united to the decadence of Spain over the past centuries...
...first five or six years after the retreat to Formosa, the Generalissimo regularly spoke of reconquering the mainland "next year." Today it has become "soon" or "when the time is ripe." Aware of U.S. fears that a Nationalist attack on the mainland might lead to World War III, Chiang has also come to emphasize that "there is no need for a world war or for the U.S. to participate, directly...