Word: premier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...eyed little Hussein Ala, for pounding the anti-Russian alarm too loudly in the Security Council. Security Council disapproval forced the Red Army to leave all Persia?but skeptics pointed out that Red influence, exerted through the Communist-led Tudeh Party, was still strong in Teheran; they doubted if Premier Ahmad Gavam's Government was free enough to re-establish its sovereignty over Azerbaijan...
Greece's Life Blood. U.N.'s Persian victory gave hope that it might be able to stop the splitting of another country, Greece. Russian satellite hands on Greece's northern border effectively blocked control by Athens of a large and important part of the country. Choleric Premier Constantin Tsaldaris, a rightist who refused to take moderates into his Government, flew to New York, shouted at the U.N. Security Council: "This situation, whereby a country which has shed so much of its blood for the common struggle [in World War II] is still being drained of its life blood, cannot continue...
Died. Cimon P. Diamantopoulos, 59, Greek Ambassador to the U.S. (since 1940), onetime Minister to Albania (!933-35) and Bulgaria (1935-40); of a heart attack, while conferring with visiting Greek Premier Constantin Tsaldaris; in Manhattan...
...behind schedule and that it was about time for Minister St. Laurent to go on the air. For the balance of the P.M.'s speech Canadians were forced to turn to their daily newspapers. There they learned that Mackenzie King had whacked Quebec's politicians, notably Premier Maurice Duplessis and his Union Nationale, which has shown little love for the Liberals...
Married. Alain Darlan, 32, son of Vichy's Admiral Vice Premier Darlan (assassinated in 1942), who at the invitation of President Roosevelt came to the U.S. in 1943 to get treatment for polio; and Mrs. Phyllis Kellum, 37, Warm Springs Foundation physiotherapist; both for the second time; in Warm Springs...