Word: premier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...disappointed Premier complained that Italy's moderates had looked to Western democracy as a godmother-but the West had turned out to be a stepmother...
...Premier-President Bidault served champagne in the Clemenceau Salon (recently named for the man who really won the game...
...Italy the connection between UNRRA aid and the kind of politics that is played for keeps was clearer than in most other countries. When LaGuardia told Premier Alcide de.Gasperi that world food prospects did not justify a recent increase in the bread ration. De Gasperi and his Christian Democratic colleagues made speeches emphasizing the relation between living standards and the Communist campaign to discredit democracy...
Totalitarian dismay in the face of a free press is not confined to Communist countries. Last week the head of ^ the rightist Greek Government, fat, cigar-smoking Premier Constantin Tsaldaris, was in London and gave a press conference. A correspondent confronted him with the UNRRA statement that supplies to Greece would be stopped because of political discrimination in handing them out, whereat Tsaldaris lost his temper and shouted: "Iff a lie, it's a slander! What right have you got to ask about the internal affairs of Greece?" The reporters began chanting "Freedom of the press!" and the Premier...
...member of his own Socialist party, Senator Henri Rolin, stubbornly fighting Minister of Justice Adolphe van Glabbeke over a secondary juridical matter, who brought about the downfall of Premier van Acker's Government. When Van Acker demanded a vote of confidence, hotheaded Rolin and two other Socialists abstained, and the Government was overthrown 79-to-78. Smiling Achille beamed: "I am the happiest of men; all my worries are over...