Word: premier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Premier Ahmad Gavam Saltaneh was back from Moscow, where his gentle dickering had yielded no assurances of Russian departure. The March 2 deadline in the Anglo-Russian-Iranian treaty continued to be honored in the breach. Premier Gavam could not defend his country or the world's peace. He waited uneasily for this week's showdown meeting of UNO's Security Council in New York...
...economic emergency," China's Premier T. V. Soong has reported, "is no less serious than the war itself." Most urgently, China needs food; in the drought-scorched central provinces, millions are facing famine. T. V. has said that imports of wheat, wheat flour and rice can solve a third of his nation's most pressing economic problems...
Credits & Surpluses. Premier Soong has held out no prospect save the bitter one of higher taxes and continued shortages. Reparations in kind from Japan will eventually help. But Manchuria, once the white hope of China's reconstruction, has become a liability instead of an asset, thanks to Russian stripping of Japanese-built factories. A $33,000,000 cotton loan from the U.S. Export-Import Bank promises to ease the textile situation. Most effective will be UNRRA's $562,000,000 shot in China's economic arm, but this will only start the job of rehabilitation...
...Paris, the exiled Spanish Republican Government still dreamed of returning as the legitimate heir of Spanish sovereignty. Like Paris and Moscow, it wanted more than the Tripartite manifesto. Cried Premier José Girál: "The only solution lies in the breaking of relations with Franco, and the rebirth of the government which represents republican...
...Moscow, the "elucidation" proceeded. Susceptible Premier Gavam might be willing, but his parliamentary majority (52-to-51) was too weak for far-reaching concessions. Any plan to abrogate Iranian sovereignty over Azerbaijan would almost certainly be repudiated by a hostile House. In vain Prince Firouz, Director of Propaganda, soothingly explained the Soviet presence in troubled areas as a "friendly gesture." Angry deputies called it "an act of aggression," "a threat of another world...