Word: premier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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General Marshall himself arrived at 10 minutes before 8. On a cold concrete apron, wet with melted snow, a cluster of photographers and dignitaries were waiting. Among the latter were Ambassador Stuart, Premier T. V. Soong, Chief of Staff Chen Cheng, Communications Minister Yu Ta-wei, Foreign Minister Wang Shih-chieh, General G. Q. Huang, Communist spokesman Wang Ping-nan. It was all very casual and informal-no ropes, no visible guards; everyone intermingled...
Highlights of History. Two recent pictures, little highlights of history, illustrate Koestler's meaning. One shows Communist boss Jacques Duclos (see cut) bouncing out of his first conference with new Premier Leon Blum. Duclos is unmistakably the master, a rotund figure of smug and pregnant power. The other picture shows France's new Socialist Cabinet. On the eve of taking office, they are just as unmistakably the defeated-pathetic shadows, human ciphers called to the semblance of power, but denied even the illusion of political effectiveness. For, says Koestler, "the French Socialists have lost both their courage...
Stanislaw Mikolajczyk, Vice Premier and leader of the combined opposition, gave the number of imprisoned candidates as 104. The National Electoral Commission rejected appeals to free the candidates, "because it is a matter for the security authorities...
...unfederated Soviet republic as Yugoslavia. The UB (security force) is modeled after (and trained by) Russia's MVD. The chief is Stanislaw Radkiewicz, former schoolteacher and longtime Communist. When his assistant, Stanislaw Vachowicz, a Socialist, complained of the UB's activities, he was forced to resign. When Premier Edward Osubka-Morawski, Socialist stooge of the Communists, protested about the UB in Cabinet meetings, he was told to mind his knitting...
Among the foreign speakers will be Premier Alcide de Gasperi of Italy, Maurice Schumann, brilliant leader of France's progressive Mouvement Républicain Populaire, Uruguay's Foreign Minister Eduardo Rodriguez Larreta. Some significant U.S. views will be voiced by Cardinal Spellman, Navy Secretary Forrestal, Sumner Welles, and James Carey, Secretary-Treasurer of the C.I.O...