Word: premier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...arrival at Eleusis airport. The plane was ahead of schedule. Archbishop Damaskinos, the hulking Regent, and Constantin Tsaldaris, the choleric Premier, were nowhere in sight. Said the King to minor officials who received him: "I'm sorry that I don't recognize all of you, but I extend my greetings." Several correspondents and newsmen, who would have liked to talk to the King, were detained in an airport building by an armed guard. When Damaskinos and Tsaldaris finally arrived, out of breath, King George was whisked aboard a destroyer, where he spent the night...
...Socialists and leftist republicans were sullen but resigned. Communists, who were already fighting in the north, were verbally ferocious, but nonviolent. The Government charged that Communist-led guerrillas in the north were being armed from Yugoslavia, Albania and Bulgaria, and that foreign military units were operating on Greek soil. Premier Tsaldaris called it war. The British said they would intervene only at the Government's request -but they shipped in more troops from Egypt and Palestine...
Last week, in an atmosphere greatly cleared by the Wallace squall, both President Truman and Premier Stalin stated that their countries do not wish war and that in their informed opinions, World War III is neither imminent nor inevitable. President Wriston's personal estimate may vary, but nevertheless, it would seem a bounden duty upon all citizens to cooperate in every way with the United Nations in its search for peace. Rifts between East and West may be resolved only through the mutual adjustments, agreements and conciliations afforded by a world organization. In 1919, this nation squandered its opportunity...
First production of the new group will be the world premier of "I Was a King in Babylon," a satire on reincarnation by William Gerhardi, one of England's foremost dramatists. The play has been scheduled for a professional London debut this winter and a New York showing in the spring...
Skinned Alive. Chicago-born Novelist Mary Borden (Mary of Nazareth, etc.) knew him well. Her husband, Major General Sir Edward L. Spears, went to France in 1940 as Winston Churchill's special liaison officer with Premier Reynaud. When he returned to England with De Gaulle after the fall of France, "almost no one in France or Great Britain knew [De Gaulle's] name; nor did the French in England receive him kindly...