Word: premier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...concentrated on interviews. In Paris he sat down with Foreign Minister Georges Bidault, Premier Paul Ramadier, President Vincent Auriol, Communist Labor Boss Benoit Frachon, and a raft of other politicians and industrialists. In his off-hours he hustled through the Renault and Chausson factories (autos and trucks) and a textile plant; he talked with businessmen, workers, storekeepers. He had the usual trouble with the French telephone system...
That Trotsky Again. Millions of Frenchmen scented violence in the bitter wind. Socialist Premier Ramadier spent hours in his office neither reading nor writing?just tugging at his beard and staring out of the window. His biggest scare came when the rightist Parti Republicain de la Liberte scheduled a monster mass meeting at the Salle Wagram. Communists promptly called a meeting at the same place. Ramadier mobilized 25,000 police and soldiers, forced both parties to call off their demonstrations...
...financial front the Generalissimo had no such luck. In a long, tense session, Premier T. V. Soong wrote and Chiang rewrote a series of economic decrees intended to end speculation in foreign exchange. Chinese currency, which had spiraled up to 19,400 to the dollar, was pegged at 12,000. But the deeper trouble would be much more difficult to reach without U.S. help. Chinese foreign exchange balances are barely adequate to cover minimum needs for the next three months. China's textile industry, for example, faces collapse if it cannot get U.S. cotton on credit. If China...
...Premier Paul Ramadier had told a news conference he hoped the alliance would be signed "in the near future...
Died. General Phya Phahon Phon Phayuhasena, 60, moonfaced, swashbuckling onetime strong man of Siam, leader of the 1933 coup d'etat which eventually resulted in the abdication of the late King Prajadhipok, for five years premier and dictator, briefly in 1941 a yellow-robed, Buddhist beggar-monk; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Bangkok...