Word: generalissimoing
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...unregenerate Communist agents slipped in unrecognized in the general rejoicing. Charged with the duties both of welcome and of careful screening is the officer who has emerged as Nationalist China's rising man. He is Lieut. General Chiang Ching-kuo, eldest son of the 66-year-old Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek...
...closemouthed about his personal life. The only child of the Generalissimo's first marriage, he was a bumptious youth who was jailed in Shanghai by the British when he was 15 for fomenting a student strike. Soon after, he told his father he wanted to go to Moscow, "to learn more about revolutionary ideas...
...wife Marian, along with Assistant Secretary of State (for Far Eastern Affairs) Walter S. Robertson, stopped off for two days in Formosa. There, in the Taipei home of Nationalist China's President Chiang Kaishek, the visitors struck a family-album sort of pose for photographers with the Generalissimo and Mme. Chiang...
...Harold E. ("Whitey") Dahl, 44, American, sometime soldier of fortune who was shot down while piloting a fighter plane for the Spanish Republicans in 1937 during Spain's civil war. Dahl had been sentenced to death, but his wife sent her photograph and a plea for mercy to Generalissimo Francisco Franco, who pardoned...
...world situation . . . made advisable the working in silence and the avoidance of action which could be exploited by the malice of our enemies." But, careful as always to juggle the elements on which he builds his power so that none gets too strong, the Generalissimo also praised the army, reminded the party that he still thinks of the Falange as "flanking the army"-that is, slightly less important...