Word: premier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...crisis of democracy!" Although they got only 29% of the popular vote, the Communists had again become France's largest party. As party and interparty caucuses brought political heads together this week, the question was whether the Reds would enter a coalition government with a non-Communist Premier, as they had done before, or whether they would insist on naming a Communist Premier of their own. Their candidate for Premier would probably be burly, shrewd Maurice Thorez (TIME, June 3). If Thorez gets the job, he will be the first Communist Premier ever to take office in western Europe...
...calling for "unity of action." This did not mean fusion, which the Socialists, after a furious split, had rejected last April. But an agreement calling for a vigorous nationalization program and the conquest of power by the working classes would probably pry the Socialists loose from their coalition with Premier Alcide de Gasperi's moderate Christian Democrats. Right-wing Socialist Giuseppe Saragat, who had led the fight against fusion, went along witH the new pact and read into it a portentous international significance. He said...
...Premier Maurice Duplessis, who hates and fears Communists, cried excitedly: "It is part of a worldwide Communist plot to disrupt democratic institutions." But the Premier, who is empowered under Quebec's Padlock Law to close any establishment in which subversive activities are being carried on, could not move against the squatters until the courts rule on whether Gagnon's squat constituted forcible entry...
...British plan was no retreat. With evacuation of Egypt guaranteed within three years, the Empire needs more room and stability than either Palestine or Trans-Jordan can afford. There would be some barriers-natural and political. In Cairo this week, Egypt's ailing Premier...
...week's end a placatory 35% wage increase had been granted; the works projects continued. To bolster Premier de Gasperi's Government's sagging morale, word came that the U.S. would send $50 million to reimburse the Italians for lire lent to the U.S. Army...