Word: premier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chose Java, and the Indonesian independence movement, for his first major assignment and, in the process of reporting that story, made two trips through territory forbidden to white men with Sjahrir, Indonesian premier. He also spent some time with rebel leader Soetomo, a fiery five-footer regarded by the Dutch as a most dangerous enemy. Soetomo's chief lieutenant was a pint-sized woman, about 50 years old, who said she was born on the Isle of Man, claimed U.S. citizenship through one of her marriages, and was variously known as Miss Tantri, Miss Daventry, Miss Merdeka (freedom...
Roxas refused, pleading ill health. Premier Tojo gave a dinner for him, and repeated the puppet proposition just before the meat course. Roxas explained about his health. Tojo sent three physicians to look him over. They found him in bed, weak, wan and sweating (Roxas, warned of their approach, had just been given a fever injection and had run up & down stairs). They diagnosed his trouble as hypertension...
...Rumania, Premier Peter Groza postponed elections until fall (by then he hopes to have liquidated the opposition). Despite vigorous U.S. protest, Reuben H. Markham, the Christian Science Monitor's veteran Balkan correspondent, was expelled last week for "misrepresenting the situation in Rumania and spreading provocative rumors prejudicial to the cause of unity among the great powers." Markham reluctantly crossed into Greece, retaliated by bitterly telling of concentration camps, political murders, meetings broken up by Red Army troops and Communists. Said he: "The worst that any tyrant ever did in the way of violence . . . is now being matched...
...over the country, throttled but still clear and firm shouts of "Nie!" (No!) rang out in answer. It was the voice of Vice Premier Mikolajczyk's Peasant Party, which had chosen the first question on the referendum ("Do you favor abolition of the Senate?"*) for a test of strength. As in France, the Reds wanted a legislature with only one house. Thus it had become a matter of saying yes or no to Communism, and the Communists had no intention of permitting Poland...
...sacrificed in vain, and rumors of assassination were still whispered in Bangkok's dance halls, where the girls did their turns in deepest mourning. With heavy innuendo a Chinese-language newspaper suggested that Dictator Premier Pridhi had found Ananda's love for the U.S. was as dangerous as the U.S. guns Ananda collected. "Ananda fell victim of an American bullet because he played too much and too carelessly with an American gun," it said...