Word: premier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...turned over to the United Nations. Saddled with a problem too great for it to handle, that organization might be destroyed while still in its infancy. He cited recent Soviet use of the veto in the Albanian case as proof of U.N. weakness. Predicting that the death of Premier Stalin might result in the rise to power of a "Hitler-like" Russian, Professor Dow opined that unlike pre-war Germany, the Soviet Union is unable to wage an effective aggressive...
...feel out the new U.S. policy by offensives in areas far from Greece. Poland's press bitterly complained that, after such "expansion by the means of loans," the U.S. would not have enough left over for "needy countries" (such as Poland). Obviously looking for assistance from closer friends, Premier Josef Cyrankiewicz and Industrial Minister Hilary Mine had just junketed to Moscow for joint-defense and trade talks...
...first week we're alive." Wrote Rome's independent Il Momento: "This is a prime example of American qualunquismo. . . .* It is naturally acclaimed by a people who like to see on their stage only a depiction of their own small lives." Wrote another: "Who knows but what [Premier] De Gasperi may have got mixed up in the theater and staged this? Like him, it praises all the simple virtues-but it is so very, very dull." Complained a hungry-sounding left-wing critic: "In every act someone is eating something. This kind of home-cooked comedy . . . represents...
...prevent a scheduled Tokyo general strike, SCAP (Supreme Command, Allied Powers) probably saved the conservative Yoshida Government (the strike's real target), but it also pushed labor toward the left-and persuaded many unionists that MacArthur had developed a filicidal anti-union bent. Since then, Premier Shigeru Yoshida's failure to curb inflation has increased tension, and has confronted SCAP with a set of unattractive alternatives: 1) to abandon all strike control and risk governmental and production collapse; 2) to take over immediately full economic direction of Japan, thus puppetizing the government; or 3) to invoke drastic measures...
...that there was only one man in the country who knew how to write the terse, factual stories that North Americans like. "Unfortunately for you," a Colombian explained, "he is our President." He spoke of keen, wiry Alberto Lleras Camargo, the "boy wonder" editor who became Minister of Interior (Premier) at 29, and stepped into the presidency ten years later. Last week, Lleras, now 41, got a job with even more scope; he was elected director general of the venerable Pan American Union...