Word: premier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mexico test occurred as the Big Three conferred at Potsdam. An ultimatum, which did not, however, hint at the bomb, was delivered. Japan's premier, Suzuki, replied haughtily that it was "unworthy of public notice...
...handful of opposition party election observers had been barred from their posts in Warsaw. Opposition party candidates had been banned from the election lists in ten districts, others had been imprisoned, 24 had been killed (TIME, Jan. 13). Mikolajczyk himself, though he was a Vice Premier of the Government, waited two and a half hours amidst a booing and jeering crowd to cast his vote. Provisional President Boleslaw Bierut and other Government members were whisked in & out of the same polling place by a phalanx of police...
...King and Turkey's President drove along Ankara's tree-lined main avenue, past granite Government buildings and cheering throngs to the presidential villa for a quiet evening of chess. Next day there were prayers at the Hadji Bayram Mosque and a state dinner at Premier Recep Peker...
...American womanhood got a kind word from Visitor Maria Romano de Gasperi, 23-year-old daughter of Italy's visiting Premier. She had thought the girls who came to Italy-"so nice, so full of life"-were exceptions; now she found that "these qualities are peculiar to all American women." She also admired their clothes. "But I think," she added, "that American women look better when they wear sport clothes than when they try to look sophisticated...
Died. Anatole de Monzie, 70, onetime leader of France's Radical Socialist Party, jack-in-the-box member of many French Cabinets, one of the top appeasers around Premier Daladier at Munich-time; in Paris...