Word: supremo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bastion of empire the proconsuls gathered. To Singapore, at the request of handsome Lord Louis Mountbatten, Allied "Supremo" for Southeast Asia, hurried Britain's genial Lieut. General Sir Philip Christison, commander in Indonesia; France's dashing Major General Jacques Leclerc, commander in Indo-China; Holland's determined Hubertus J. van Mook, Acting Governor General of the East Indies. Waiting to meet them and assess their problems was Britain's peripatetic Sir Alan Brooke, chief of the Imperial General Staff. While houseboys served cooling drinks, the masters conferred on a new policy toward 94,000,000 rebellious...
During the ceremony, the jefe received 35 grizzled, barefooted veterans of the war of 1870 on the Palace balcony. Their leader, perky Sergeant Major Victoriano Martinez, shouted patriotic praise at Morinigo, called him the new Supremo* who would lead Paraguay back to glory...
...Supremo, Jose Caspar Rodriguez Francia, was Dictator of Paraguay for a quarter-century (1814-40). His policy of strict isolationism prevented Paraguay's incorporation into Argentina or Brazil...