Word: generalissimo
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...address the dictator's legacy. When the government removed the last remaining statue of Franco in Madrid in March, PP leader Mariano Rajoy accused Zapatero of "breaking the spirit of the transition [to democracy]." The men at the Francisco Franco Foundation say they aren't worried about the Generalissimo's fate because they believe the plans to remake the Valley will founder in political disagreements. Even icv vice president Bosch admits that the government may not be ready to move the dictator's remains to a private grave. But whatever happens, it seems likely that in the near future, visitors...
...have been dangerous. If you didn't want the Guardia Civil on your neck - as once happened to me for lighting a small fire on a secluded beach to cook a fish - you kept talk to toros, the failings of the national football team ? and pass the sangria. The Generalissimo was a man whose semantics ranged from Si! to No!, who personally chose Spain's King, who jailed homosexuals. Today, I can spout republicanism in my village bar to Rafael, a captain in the Guardia Civil reserve. He can try to shout me down with "Viva el Rey, Viva Leonor...
...survived the Long March largely because Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek made a secret deal with Stalin: Chiang let the Red Army escape in exchange for the Russians' release of the Generalissimo's son and eventual successor, Chiang Ching-kuo, held hostage in Moscow. Mao, meanwhile, solidified his power by luring a rival Red Army faction to its destruction and burying the survivors alive...
...been on the mainland since he left with his family at the age of 10 in 1946. The meeting inevitably kindled memories of the last time the KMT and the Communist Party joined forces?in 1937 to fight the Japanese?and the 1945 meeting in which Mao Zedong and Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek reached a shaky agreement, which collapsed into the final four years of civil war that forced the KMT to Taiwan...
...opium market, pocketing American loans and hatching so many wartime scams that within five months of being installed at a rate of four to $1, the gold yuan had plunged to a rate of 1 million to $1. He further repeats the familiar charge that in 1934 the Generalissimo, hell-bent on settling scores with the Chinese Communists instead of fighting the Japanese enemy, followed the advice of a Nazi strategist, creating a scorched-earth policy and a famine that left a million Chinese dead...