www.npr.org/2025/02/07/n... 1/ This piece of news reminds me of the following excerpt on another authoritarian from Theodore White’s book, Thunder out of China (1947): “No one knows how many positions Chiang kai Sheck held during the war years. - ThreadSky

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1/ This piece of news reminds me of the following excerpt on another authoritarian from Theodore White’s book, Thunder out of China (1947):

“No one knows how many positions Chiang kai Sheck held during the war years.

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erimjh.bsky.social•20 days ago

2/ At one time his secretary said there were at least eighty-two: he imagined a complete list could be found somewhere, but he had never compiled one. The Ministry of Information made up an incomplete list, which stated that among other things Chaing kai sheck was:

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3/ Chief Executive of the Kuomintang; President of the National Government; Chairman of the National Military Council; Commander in Chief of land, naval and air forces; Supreme Commander of the China Theater; President of the State Council;

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4/ Chairman of the Supreme national Defense Council; Director General of the Central Planning Board; Chairman of the Political Work Evaluation Committee; Director of the new Life Movement Association; Chairman of the Commission of Inauguration of Constitutional Government;

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5/ President of the Central Training Corps.; President of the School for Descendants of Revolutionary Martyrs; President of the National Glider associations..”

The complete list includes chairman of the YWCA and Boy Scouts as well.

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