Word: premier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nationwide purge, less publicized, and as yet less bloody, than the Great Purge of the '30s, but raking Soviet life from top to bottom. Pravda claimed for the move "political significance of the first importance." The long, grim decree, announcing the purge, bore an ominous joint signature: Premier Joseph Stalin (for the Soviet Government) and Secretary Andrei A. Zhdanov (for the Central Committee of the Russian Communist Party...
...Constituent Assembly Premier Alcide De Gasperi wanly faced a bitter opposition. Said he: "The land invasion is unjustified, because seeding time comes in November." Said World War I Finance Minister Francesco Nitti, 78: "De Gasperi is like the sick man who, when the doctors told him to give up wine, women, and song, answered, 'I'll do it very gradually. For the moment I'll give up song...
...Russian demands are so unreasonable that there is no possibility of their acceptance, we can suspect that Premier Stalin's avowals of love and friendship toward all should be immersed in an entire barrel of salt before being swallowed. If their requests can reasonably be granted we should make every effort to see that they are granted. We can then watch Russia's actions. If she exhibits a spirit of goodwill and co-operation, well and good. We can look forward to a fear free future. If, however, Moscow continues to agitate, obstruct, and demand we can expect the worst...
...Russian bloc was still raising its ante elsewhere. Foreign Minister Molotov, who had agreed to an internationalized Trieste at the Big Four meeting, proposed a new ten-point plan that would put Trieste in Tito's vest pocket. Tito's Vice Premier Edvard Kardelj demanded more Italian territory, barked that otherwise Yugoslavs would "fight for their rights." At week's end Molotov declared that, despite the Byrnes speech, Poland would keep its present western frontiers...
Laurette, Mary Jane and Catherine Soong, daughters of China's Premier T. V. Soong and nieces of the Chiangs, flew east from San Francisco to school. Laurette, 18, was bound for Washington's Trinity College (Roman Catholic), Mary Jane and Catherine, 16 and 15, for Baltimore and Long Island prep schools, both Quaker...