Word: generalissimoing
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...Chou became bitter personal enemies. For Chiang's ears, they told tales of misconduct against each other. The Generalissimo listened patiently, did nothing until Mao's complaints found their way into a Drew Pearson column. Then, angry because private Chinese linen was being washed before the American public, Chiang issued the order for Mao's recall on charges of official misconduct...
Died. Tu Yueh-sen, 64, onetime fruit vendor who became the underworld boss of Shanghai, controlled the city's waterfront trade unions, ricksha boys and the Red Gate and Blue Societies (protection racket); after long illness; in Hong Kong. In 1927, when Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek split with the Communists, Tu broke up the powerful Communist-bossed General Labor Union, managed to keep Shanghai from falling to the Reds. In return, Chiang appointed him head of the Anti-Opium League, a position which gave him legal control of the country's thriving drug trade, in which he already...
...obedient Dominican Party, Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina announced last week that he would not seek a fifth term in next year's presidential election. But, he added, "my presence shall not be lacking in the solution of any fundamental problem." Dominicans knew what that meant: Generalissimo Trujillo, self-styled Benefactor of the Fatherland, would still be watching...
...might have been suspected last week of acting like a candidate. The governor announced that he would set off this month (after getting briefed by General MacArthur) for the Korean fighting front and would also visit Japan, Indo-China, Singapore, Indonesia, Hong Kong, the Philippines, Australia, New Zealand and Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek...
...return home and as Secretary of State, said Marshall, "I specifically was endeavoring to see what support could be given the Generalissimo . . . The situation was such that we would literally have to take over control of the country in order to insure that the armies functioned with efficiency ... At that time, our own military position was extraordinarily weak . . . We had one and a third divisions in the entire United States. As I recall General Wedemeyer's estimates, about 10,000 officers and others would be necessary to oversee and direct those various operations. Therefore, I was not in agreement...