Word: generalissimo
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...spectacular and characterized by friendliness. Detachments of British, French, Italian and Turkish troops marched into the big square opposite the Dolma Bagtche Palace amid tumultuous cheers from the populace. The Allies saluted the Turkish flag and the Turks saluted the Allies' flags. The appearance of General Harington, Allied Generalissimo, who, more than any other man, is responsible for having maintained the peace under the most difficult of circumstances, was a signal for a prodigious outburst of enthusiasm from the Turks. When he saluted the Turkish flag and gripped the hand of Salah-Ed-Din Adil Pasha, Military Governor...
...surrounded, by a group of disreputable Hungarians and Jews. It appears that his best defense is that he was the tool of these people. At any rate, when Karolyi and some of his ministers appeared before General Franchet d'Esperey at Belgrade to negotiate armistice terms, the Allied Generalissimo looked scornfully at them and said: "Vous etes juifs?" Turning to Karolyi he said: "Vous etes tombes si bas?" Then turning on his heel he left them, declining to negotiate terms of an armistice for Hungary. That was the impression which the Ministers of Hungary made. After this it appeares...
...commission is at present deciding the issues presented by ex- Premier Venizelos, who set forth the views of the Greek Government on indemnities and safeguards for Hellenic subjects. Lieutenant General Sir Charles Harington, Generalissimo of the Allied forces in the Near East, also gave the Allies a survey of the present military and political situation in Turkey...
...attract. Instead, therefore, a welcome will be staged that day on the steps of Widener, before which all the students will find room to assemble. There, as the canons of the Military Science Department boom a salute, the various classes, under their respective marshals, will meet and cheer the Generalissimo of the Allied forces. There is no need to urge everyone to be there. The mere announcement will suffice to crowd the Yard, and this change of plan will enable us to accord Marshal Foch as hearty a welcome as was ever received by any visitor to Harvard...