Word: generalissimoing
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...that Mow had a sizable part of the missing millions in Mexico. His local attorney said that Mow would hand the money over to the United Nations or the Mexican government if he could be sure it would be returned to the Chinese people "instead of the pockets of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek." Once Mow was in custody, however, Attorney General Luis Felipe Canudas decided that Mexico had a couple of scores to settle first with the high-living general: illegal entry, and use of stolen funds to buy Mexican property. Added Canudas: "We are holding Agnes Kelly, his secretary...
...Generalissimo Franco, about to take off on his annual tuna-fishing expedition in the Mediterranean, the occasion was a more formal date: a party in El Pardo Palace for Carmen, his only granddaughter...
...Leader. Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and Madame Chiang resent the notion that they are living in exile. Taipei, they insist, is simply the provisional capital of China, just as Chungking was during World War II. Although Chiang's vast domain has shrunk to a mere 14,000 square miles, his icy dignity has, if anything, increased. Nobody is now, or ever was, on back-slapping terms with Chiang. At 65, he lives a Spartan life, eats sparingly, and neither drinks nor smokes...
...Moscow. Stalin's name and pictures were carefully balanced with Mao's on all sides. Two approved slogans for the day clarified their relationship: the one for Mao, "Long live Mao Tse-tung, Great Leader of the Working People of China"; the one for Stalin, "Long live Generalissimo Stalin, Great Leader of the Working People of the Whole World...
...fact is, Churchill said, "there is no change in our policy. Nothing could be more foolish than for the armies of the U.S. or the U.N. to become engulfed in the vast areas of China," he continued, and "few adventures could be less successful or fruitful than for Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek to plunge on to the mainland." As a closing shot, he said: "The prospects of a truce being reached and respected in Korea will depend to a large extent upon the unity between Great Britain and the U.S.," on "all who seek to weaken or divide us being...