Word: gissimo
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...that house is the Chinese Military Mission sent by Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek to help the U.S. plan and coordinate campaigns in the Far East. Head of the mission is General Hsiung Shih-hui, a quick-witted, rugged, battlewise soldier. One of its members is Peter Chuh, the Gissimo's nephew. Several of them speak as well as fight Japanese. Most of the members have known the Japanese intimately in battle-for five years past...
Country's Man. "Let them come," the Gissimo said in the summer of 1940, when Chungking morale reached an all-war low, "let them drive me back into Tibet. In five years I will be back here and I will conquer all China again...
...today the Gissimo, usually a monument of calm confidence, makes no secret of the fact that he is more worried than at any time in five years...
Army's Man. For this vital campaign the Gissimo's only weapon is China's army, a peasant army, full of superstitions as simple as the soil from which it springs...
...London there were immediate hints that the British Government had understood, as well as heard, the Gissimo. Official circles were loud with rumors that Winston Churchill, who was at last paying considerable attention to his critics (see p. 27), would shortly move to increase India's autonomy. That was a job which, owing to the Hindu-Moslem conflict in India, as well as to Tory opposition at home, would call for real statesmanship. But, after the Gissimo's words, it seemed that Britain might tackle...