Word: premier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...failed to get a big Interim Government job despite a Congress recommendation, was naturally disappointed. When 200 Moslem students, armed with sticks and knives, politely urged him to rejoin the glorious fight for Pakistan, Huq was converted again. He made a new try for his old job as Bengal Premier, also launched a campaign to stop Mohandas Gandhi's "neighborly" preaching in Bengal. Cried Huq: "I am surprised to see Moslems in Noakhali tolerating Gandhi peacefully...
...only last December British diplomats were trying to discourage Greek Premier Tsaldaris from seeking help in Washington. Just as some U.S. leaders had not caught up with the implications of expanded U.S. responsibility, so some British officials had not caught up with the implications of contracted British power...
Strong Words. The outburst surprised old (75) Socialist Premier Camille Huysmans. To deputies trapped with him inside Parliament during the riot he said: "We have already spent 7½ billion francs on them. They have no right to complain...
From Nanking, TIME Correspondent Frederick Gruin cabled this account of T. V. Soong's final days as Premier...
Instead of Tea. Thursday afternoon, in this atmosphere, T.V. invited all 30 members of the standing committee of the People's Political Council to the Executive Yuan for tea. But the implacable Fu led 17 fellow committeemen in a boycott of the Premier's party. Word went round that T.V. would have a rough time at the upcoming Legislative Yuan...