Word: generalissimoing
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...people of the lower classes, the peasantry, was so much better than that of the Nationalist government that they could gain the control politically. And the hope in the matter, so far as I saw it, was that other parties and the nonparty group could coalesce and the Generalissimo back them ... to hold the balance of power between the two, alongside of the evident factor to me and to my associates that the Kuomintang government was utterly incapable of suppressing the Communists by military means...
...which threatened Formosa seriously. Those troops were the Fourth and the Third Field Armies, which afterward showed up in North Korea ... As soon as it became known that these troops had moved up north and were attacking me ... I recommended to Washington that the wraps be taken off the Generalissimo . . . The slightest use that was made of those troops would have taken the pressure off my troops...
SENATOR RUSSELL: "General, would you mind advising the committee and the Senate what you think is the real strength of the Generalissimo's forces on Formosa...
MACARTHUR: "I can tell you with considerable responsibility, Senator ... I went down to Formosa . . . The Generalissimo has probably in the neighborhood of a half million troops. The personnel is excellent. They are just exactly the same as these Red troops I am fighting. They have a good morale. Their material equipment is spotty . . . My own estimate would be after the material was there, that those troops would be in very good shape . . . within four months...
...specific suggestion for world peace: President Truman and Generalissimo Stalin, he said, should meet in the nude to talk things over-in a cave, or a holy city like Benares. The conference, said Gir, should be held in an atmosphere of "I have nothing to hide from you." Added Gir: "If the gentlemen have the vigor to accompany me, I will gladly lead them to an excellent cave...