Word: premier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There was no laughter when Ala told how Russian Ambassador Ivan Sadchikov, acting as a "friendly mediator," had urged Premier Ahmed Gavam to grant the Azerbaijan autonomists' demands. Said Ala quietly: "That, to my mind, is an interference." Said Stettinius: "I believe more than ever that it would be a mistake to drop the case. . . ." The Council agreed. But Russian-sponsored rebels continued to hold Azerbaijan...
...week's end, with a national disaster threatening (and national elections approaching) King Umberto and Premier de Gasperi got the same idea. Each hopped into a plane, raced to Cagliari. Umberto won handily. He watched as locust-fighters deployed their last weapon: 62 drums of gammexane, a sort of new DDT, flown in from England for its first big-scale test. If this failed, nothing would stop the scourge save a miracle such as that related in Exodus 10:19: "And the Lord turned a mighty strong west wind, which took away the locusts, and cast them into...
...which . . . recall the methods of totalitarian propaganda, f France] has nothing to gain from being exclusively aligned on Russian foreign policy. . . . We must not be cut off from the Anglo-Saxon world, nor from Russia either for that matter. . . . [But] the nation does not want Maurice Thorez to be premier...
...last week's first postwar Dutch election, things were different. Premier Schermerhorn's new Party of Labor, cutting across religious lines, got its first test at the polls. It won 29 of the 100 seats in the lower House of the States-General...
Edouard Herriot, corresponding with the publishers of a book he is working on, gave them a peek at a septuagenarian's psyche. "Now that I have grown old," wrote France's 73-year-old ex-Premier, "I have the feeling, when walking through a cemetery, that I am apartment-hunting...