Word: generalissimo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fortnight ago, China's National Assembly overwhelmingly elected Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek President of China. Then they turned to the election of a Vice President. At first, everything was smooth as cream. At the Dragon Gate restaurant, delegates sipped tea with Candidate Sun Fo, whose father was Sun Yatsen, hero of the revolution, and who was second only to the Gimo in Kuomintang prestige. Four other aspirants were equally polite and formal...
Characterizing the Generalissimo as "another Hitler," General Fong Mu-sheng, a self-declared exile opposing the Nationalist policies, claimed that the Kuomintang has lost the loyalty of both soldiers and people as a result of whole-sale graft and treachery...
...Enemy. In four years, Communism had established its own Vatican (a shiny, modern office building), its own Pope (Palmiro Togliatti), its own hierarchy of spiritual and secular servants. One of the most important was Luigi ("The Cock") Longo, a man with a sharp, beaked face, who is generalissimo of Italian Communism's army. His partisans, who never surrendered the arms with which they fought the Germans, are estimated at 150,000. Daily, Italian police were finding more of Longo's arms caches; no one knew how many they failed to find. Longo's men face...
...Nanking's Kuomintang compound, 300 members of the party's executive committee convened. Their purpose: to nominate a presidential and vice presidential candidate for election this month by the National Assembly. It seemed a foregone conclusion that Chiang would be the candidate for the presidency. The Generalissimo, who presided over the meeting, looked more solemn than usual. Mme. Chiang was in the audience. Then Chiang rose and began to speak, slowly and carefully...
After 19 hours the hunger strikers finally permitted themselves to be taken home by policemen. Tired-looking Chiang Kai-shek welcomed the delegates and then, in a mildly tolerant gesture, returned to his residence to have tea with the "irregulars." The day before, the Generalissimo had attended the last meeting of the People's Political Council (which for ten years had functioned as China's provisional Parliament). In his farewell address, Chiang had some significant things to say about tolerance: "I have committed many blunders during these past ten years, but the worst was my tolerance toward...