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Resplendent in the white uniform of the commander in chief of the Spanish air force, pudgy Generalissimo Francisco Franco set off fortnight ago on a tour of West Africa and the Canary Islands. In Morocco he watched heavily robed native dancers, graciously accepted from Moroccan notables the traditional gift of two camels. At Santa Cruz de Tenerife in the Canaries, the generalissimo gave an encouraging speech to officers of the local Spanish garrison, told them that the world was beginning to recognize the "reality" of Spain's cause...
Shrieks & Secrets. Journeying to China in 1927, "Kalty" interviewed Chiang Kaishek, "an altogether charming human being" at a back province Buddhist monastery. The generalissimo, says Kaltenborn, "was clearly pleased that we had come so far to see him," and sent a breakfast of "California oranges and . . . San Francisco chocolate drops." Mussolini was pleased, too. "He even treated us as important guests by rising from his chair and advancing to the front of his desk while we covered the interminable distance . . . across the immense room." When Il Duce had trouble with English words, recalls Kaltenborn, "I would tentatively suggest one. Several...
Died. Mme. Julie Bienvenue Foch, 90, widow of Marshal Ferdinand Foch (1851-1929), Allied Generalissimo in 1918; in Paris...
...Formosa (TIME, Aug. 7) until he made it. And while they were belatedly and reluctantly beginning to warm up-by degrees-to the Nationalists, they looked in their newspapers and read of diplomatic gallantries between MacArthur and Mme. Chiang and fervid comrades-in-arms exchanges between MacArthur and the Generalissimo...
...Keep your chin up, we're going to win," said Douglas MacArthur as he bade farewell to Chiang Kaishek. Then, as China's Generalissimo beamed and haoed, the U.S. Far East Commander flew off in his C-54 Bataan for Tokyo...