Word: premier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rumania's Premier Petru Groza got U.S. and British notes, charging that Rumania had failed to live up to the Moscow agreements-had censored stories critical of Communists, had not scheduled free elections. Police broke into the American Military Mission headquarters in Bucharest and arrested all Russian civilian employes. Groza issued a routine denial of the U.S. charges, added a priceless promise: "The elections will take place when our barns are full...
Remember Bratislava. Slovakia's deviation from the national pattern was the first concern of the Communists and their veteran boss, Vice Premier Klement Gottwald (who was a good bet to be Czechoslovakia's next Premier). Pipe-puffing Comrade Gottwald started out by fighting Russia as an Austro-Hungarian sergeant major in World War I, has been fighting for Communism ever since. Like Yugoslavia's Tito he is a former metalworker, and like France's Thorez he sat out the war in Moscow. Like both, he knows how to deal with overly independent elements...
Spain. Next day mild, dapper José Giral, Premier of the Spanish Republican Government in exile, appeared before the Council's subcommittee on Spain to warn that Franco had 1,590,000 soldiers. Earlier in the week the U.S. had reported that Spain's "armed forces have continued their overall trend of gradual reduction in size...
...Supreme Commander gave his blessing to Shigeru Yoshida as Japan's third postwar premier...
Stuffy, blundering Yoshida ran into immediate trouble. While he struggled to form a government, Tokyo leftists swarmed into the streets. They coupled the demand "Give us more rice," with the cry "Down with Yoshida." One mob, 200,000 strong, marched on the Premier's residence. Thirty demonstration leaders, among them Kyuichi Tokuda, Secretary General of Japan's Communist Party, entered the house, bedded down in the front parlor, threatened to stay until the Premier resigned...