Word: ministere
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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At the opening of Parliament, Nehru further dazzled and delighted Indians by warning that "any aggression" against the small states of the Himalayas would be considered as aggression against India, and won cheers with his pledge that "if war is thrust upon us we shall fight with all our strength...
Last March a mutiny broke out. Two Sudanese brigadier generals marched on Khartoum with two battalions and kidnaped Abboud's No. 2 man, the Minister of the Interior. But Abboud, after hearing out the brigadiers' complaints, fired his Interior Minister and promoted the two officers to seats on...
But when Erlander's Finance Minister submitted his new budget, reiterating Erlander's promise not to raise taxes, he did not explain how the government could cover its expected $490 million budget deficit without an inflationary increase in Sweden's soaring national debt (up from $2.4 billion...
A year ago, young Tom Mboya from Kenya was the toast of Accra, enjoying the benevolent patronage of that would-be leader of emerging Africa, Ghana's Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah himself. The principal difference between the two men is that Nkrumah is the unchallenged boss of an independent...
"I shall insist on discipline with a capital D," declared Wijayananda Dahanayake when he became Prime Minister of Ceylon after the assassination of his predecessor, S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike. But soon Dahanayake was surrounded by chaos with a capital C. Hardly had Bandaranaike been buried when dark rumors spread that colleagues of...