Governor Dewey, the last white hope of Chiang Kai-shek, was defeated. And with him the generalissimo.
杜威州长的落选使蒋寄托于美国的最后一点希望落空，蒋本人跟着也完蛋了。
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Chiang himself, with his glamorous wife, Soong Mayling, his cool, austere manner and his comic-book title, "the Generalissimo", seemed somewhere on the spectrum between joke and monster.