Word: generalissimoing
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...Generalissimo Francisco Franco was good & mad, according to reports seeping from his Madrid palace. Why, he angrily demanded of his advisers, had they kept him ignorant of the people's impatience over the soaring cost of living? The Barcelona protest strike (TIME, March 19) had come as a shock. The dictator's underlings lamely explained that they had not bothered him with details because they had hoped to clear the situation up before news of it reached his ears...
...planes darted overhead. One 21-gun salute after another boomed out. Within the pea-green reception room of the government building in the dusty Dominican border town of Elias Pifia, officials of Hispaniola's two little republics crowded close. Then Generalissimo Dr. Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, Honorable Chief of State, Benefactor of the Nation, President and for 20 years dictator of the Dominican Republic, stepped forward and embraced coal-black Colonel Paul Magloire, newly elected President of Haiti and something of a strong man himself...
...Generalissimo Francisco Franco had a suggestion: France should let its one-time ambassador to Spain, Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain, now under a life sentence for treason, come to live in Spain and enjoy "the hospitality of our wonderful Mediterranean climate, where, until passions die down, he could spend the last years of his life, loved and respected." In Paris, a few World War I veterans, celebrating the 35th anniversary of the Battle of Verdun, remembered their old hero, set up a chant of "Set Pétain free" before police could silence them...
Perhaps the best illustration of what would happen if Chiang invaded is shown by the desertions from his Nationalist army. Between fifty and seventy percent of the Communist army in Korea consists of former Nationalist soldiers. Demoralized by the Generalissimo's corrupt staff, these soldiers deserted to the Reds where their American weapons were welcome. There is no reason to believe that the Nationalist army now based in Formosa would act any differently when it reached the mainland again and encountered overwhelming Communist forces...
...wrote Reston, "Mr. Acheson is all for giving more help to Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, insisting that military considerations must determine United States policy toward the future of Formosa, [and] conducting a policy of economic sanctions against the Peiping regime...