Word: generalissimoing
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...Kong rumors centered around the head of a Chinese journalist named Tsao Chu-jen, who has a reputation for being both anti-Communist and anti-Kuomintang. Tsao had known many prominent Chinese on both sides before the Nationalists were driven from the mainland, had written a book about the generalissimo's eldest son, Chiang Ching-kuo. Believing that there was no future for an independent Formosa, and that the best thing for all Chinese was a negotiated settlement with the Communists, he got an encouraging go-ahead from Peking, then wrote to Chiang Ching-kuo, the generalissimo...
...Europe's most durable dictators, Spain's Generalissimo Francisco Franco entertains a deep-seated distrust for the helter-skelter ways of democracy. Last week he made it plain that he wants none of it in Spanish Morocco...
...like a paper dragon, Nationalist China still plans to use her veto for the first time in ten years in order to block the admission of 18 new members to the United Nations. This decision is known to have been taken despite two direct appeals from President Eisenhower to Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek. It has been taken, moreover, in the face of the clear wish of virtually every other country in the UN that the 18 new members, including Outer Mongolia, be admitted to the world organization...
...stated on my return from China in 1946 . . . a hundred years from now I believe historians will give the Generalissimo a high place among his contemporaries. This is my continued judgment...
...fairest and most balanced statement I have seen about Chiang Kaishek, and the cause that he represents, in any current publication. I lived in Nanking from 1932 to 1936 when I was on the faculty of the University of Nanking . . . I have a great admiration and respect for the Generalissimo, for his integrity, patriotism and courage . . . The decade from 1927 to 1937 was generally considered the best period in Chinese history from the standpoint of efficiency and integrity, and it was only the pressing necessity of battling with the Japanese that knocked awry the Nationalist government and its reforms...