Word: generalissimoing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Chinese ambassador boasted to Indonesians that he had once been a teacher, a writer and a critic, and a secretary to Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek. Last week Uncle Barhen's past seemed to be catching up with him. Indonesians had discovered that he was the same Wang Jen-shu who wrote a book in 1948 advocating the overthrow of the Indonesian government on the ground that it did not represent the people. President Soekarno's government has been rounding up copies of the book. It is waiting for the ambassador to make just one more boner before asking Uncle...
...millions of Europeans, Generalissimo Franco is the main symbol of the Fascism they have scarcely finished fighting. To make ourselves party to Franco's rule for any reason whatsoever, is to endanger our greatest asset in Western Europe: the faith of democratic people that the United States is an ally against totalitarianism...
...withholding support and further recognition, and by explaining bluntly our reasons for doing so, we might keep what respect Truman's action has left us. We might also contribute to the downfall of the Generalissimo, which would be to our credit. At best, underwriting fascism in Spain can only weaken our position in Europe, and that the United States can not afford...
...wherever it came, the U.S. should go to war with Russia. In this view the U.S. should stay in Europe, wage an air and sea blockade on Communist China, and take allies where they could be found-Nationalist China's Chiang Kai-shek and his army on Formosa, Generalissimo Francisco Franco and his strategic Spain, Tito and Yugoslavia...
After four years of pulling strings, Generalissimo Franco finally got himself unostracized by the United Nations on Saturday. He promptly returned in "triumph" to Madrid (from a tour of his overseas possessions) and was met with amazing indifference by this citizens...