Word: premier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...state of unrest gives the government an excuse for violating . . . freedom of the press. . . . Vice Premier Stanislaw Mikolajczyk's Gazeta Ludowa was permitted to print only watered-down versions of the Peasant Party attack on Communist control. . . . Such restraints do not apply to the Communist organ Glos Ludu, which can fill its columns with reckless charges against Mikolajczyk. This journal's recent reference to Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg, Republican of Michigan, as 'a sworn and deserving follower and defender of Hitler' will give some measure of its madness...
...plebiscite on the return of the king to the throne has been approved by the British Government, premier Constantin Tsaldaris announced yesterday in Athens. Macrides believes such a plebiscite should be avoided for at least a year, in view of the objections of the various democratic parties in Greece...
Naturally, Communist gloating was restrained. Deputy Raymond Guyot predicted, "After the triumph of May 5 [the referendum on the Constitution] we will go on to triumph on June 2 [the election of a new Assembly], when Maurice Thorez will become the new Premier!" But he did not explain the connection between the referendum and Communist control of the Government...
...Assembly will choose both the President and Premier of the Republic. The President will be even more a figurehead than in the Third Republic. Cracked one commentator: his chief duty will be to "inaugurate fairs and kindergartens...
Married. Ninon Tallon, 39, niece of ex-Premier Edouard Herriot of France, onetime French cinemactress; and Oscar Karlweis, 49, Austrian-born Broadway star (Jacobowsky & the Colonel; I Like It Here); both for the second time; in Manhattan...