Word: premier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What about Russia? As usual, Russia was a self-aggravated mystery. President Truman had asked Premier Stalin for Russian cooperation in the anti-famine program. And Stalin had replied-but Truman was noncommittal about the nature of the reply. Then the Moscow radio blared an answer of its own: Russia, threatened with drought in the Ukraine, was nevertheless shipping 1,100,000 tons of grain to key spots, France, Poland, Rumania and Finland-where it would also do the most political good...
Said Azerbaijan's Premier Jafar Pishevari the following day: "Our country is on a war footing. . . . Russian moral support . . . made it possible for the people to realize a 30-year-old hope...
...bitter public gossip about banquets for a few while millions starved (TIME, May 6) echoed in China's Executive Yuan. Under Premier T. V. Soong, the Nanking Government ordered all civil servants to observe austerity. Items: no lavish gifts or ceremonies, no dancing. Those who enter taxi dancehalls or "any improper place" and those who "invite prostitutes or singsong girls to amuse them" would be fired...
...Communists, Socialists and the government-sponsored 'Peasant Party' joined in a vote of confidence for the coalition government which included censure of Mikolajczyk's Polish Peasant Party for 'obstructing national unity.' . . . Premier Edward Osubka-Morawski joined the attack. 'We must eliminate elements,' he cried, 'which are trying to conceal illegal reactionary underground activity by taking part in the government of the country...
...shadow of a shady past rose last week to smite ambitious Ichiro Hatoyama. His Liberal Party had won a thumping plurality in Japan's first postwar Diet elections; after long hesitation Premier Shidehara had recommended the stocky, 63-year-old politico to the Emperor as his successor. Then the Allied Supreme Commander spoke. "The Japanese Government," said a MacArthur directive, "having failed to act on its own responsibility, the Supreme Commander has determined the facts relative to Hatoyama's eligibility . . . finds he is an undesirable person." Hatoyama...