Word: generalissimoing
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...gaily clad drum dancers, marched to a large square. There, according to Radio Peking, a waiting crowd rumbled "thunderous, spontaneous cheers of 'Stalin!' and 'Mao Tse-tung!'" while speakers extolled "the most devoted friends of the Chinese people, sent by the great Generalissimo Stalin." The Chinese Communists proclaimed "Sino-Soviet Friendship Month...
Fanned Friendship. Perhaps never in history had friendship between two nations been so determinedly fanned. In Peking, it was love, love, love on a timetable, production-line basis. Twenty-four official slogans proclaimed: "Warm Thanks for Selfless Aid to China's Construction by Generalissimo Stalin," "Fighters of the People's Liberation Army Study Hard Advanced Soviet Military Science," "Salute Soviet Experts Who Have Tirelessly Helped in China's Construction." The others acclaimed Soviet women, youth, animal breeders, cooperative workers, farmers...
...years later Malenkov was appointed to the all-powerful Politburo. It was a long way up, but not quite the top yet. The war carried him there: when Comrade Stalin became Generalissimo Stalin, he gave most of his purely party functions and many of his home-front tasks to Malenkov. More & more, while Stalin ran the war, Malenkov ran Russia...
...minorities,*they have fought for centuries to keep their identity distinct from their Spanish neighbors, who had conquered the Basque provinces by the 16th century. During the Spanish Civil War, the Republican government granted the Basques autonomy, and thereby got most of them on its side. After the war. Generalissimo Franco returned to the older
...been said of Pedro Cardinal Segura y Sáenz, Archbishop of Seville, that in the 15th century he would have been counted a saint. In the 20th, he is regarded as somewhat old-fashioned-not to say reactionary. Last week Cardinal Segura again expressed annoyance at Generalissimo Francisco Franco's government for allowing limited religious toleration of non-Catholics. In a pastoral letter, he took issue with the "bill of rights" which the Spanish government enacted in 1945. This recognizes Roman Catholicism as Spain's official religion, but allows non-Catholics to practice their faith in private...