Word: premier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...educator in China, Dr. Stuart traveled the country far & wide, stayed aloof from China's politics, met and endeared himself to Chinese of every stripe. More important, he came to be well known and trusted by Chiang Kaishek, Madame Chiang, Premier T. V. Soong and Communist negotiator Chou En-lai (some of Communist Yenan's leaders are Yenching graduates...
...Cabinet, the Reds supported President-Premier Bidault's stand opposing the Molotov plan. But as good Communists, they knew that Stalin was still Stalin and Molotov his prophet. Its faith unshaken, but its vital gift for rationalization badly disrupted, Communist Humanite babbled: ". . . no insoluble divergence. Subsequent discussions will explain these questions more clearly." An emergency Communist line was appearing, to the effect that Russia was merely trying to keep perfidious Albion's claws off the Ruhr. French Communists would have to take comfort from the thought that their present distress was only a tactical interlude in Communism...
When order was restored, the Assembly seated Dupont (vote 341-to-130) with only the Communists voting against him. A similar effort to unseat wartime Premier Paul Reynaud met a similar fate...
Strakova Akademie in Prague's sleepy, baroque Mala Strana (Little Town) had been a school for young nobles under the Habsburgs and a Gestapo court under the Nazis. Last week it had a new tenant. Out of its modernized office suites walked mousy-looking Social Democrat Premier Zdenek Fierlinger, to be Vice Premier of Czechoslovakia. In came tough-looking Communist Vice Premier Klement Gottwald to be Premier...
...last time finds himself on humorous celluloid. The Marx Brothers, happily caught in the revival cycle, have been racing through a cinematic renaissance. No serious student of Comparative Comedy can afford to finesse this eighty-minute demonstration of diplomatic rompings and political perambulating. Groucho, as Rufus J. Firefly, premier of Freedonia, involves himself in an international embroglio from which not even a rapier-keen cigar can extricate him. His butt is Louis Calhern--since elevated to tonier company as "The Magnificent Yankee"--an embassy villain who early in the film loses his coattails, and his dignity, to the omni-present...