Word: premier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next day, Egypt's new premier, grizzled old Ismail Sidky Pasha, pleaded with his people to keep their fezzes on. Sidky's regime sympathized with nationalist goals-evacuation of British troops in Egypt, an end to British joint control over the Sudan. But cautious Sidky knew that negotiations to revise the 1936 Anglo-Egyptian Treaty might consume weeks; it might take only minutes to touch off another riot...
With results nearly complete, the Christian Social Party, a revamped and somewhat liberalized version of the old conservative Catholic Party, led the field with 90 of the 202 Chamber seats, a gain of 17 over its prewar strength. Runner-up was Premier Achille van Acker's Socialist Party with 69 (prewar: 64). The Communists took 24 seats (prewar: 9), the middle-road Liberals toppled to 17 (prewar: 33). Neither the Catholics nor the leftists were now able to rule alone. The Liberals, enfeebled as they were, could still tip the scale either...
...Europe's battlefields, none had erased more of the scars of war than Belgium. As soon as the Germans vacated one end of a town, Belgians began repairing their roofs at the other. Under the energetic guidance of Socialist Premier van Acker, a basketmaker's son, they had gone on repairing, rebuilding. The dynamic, 52-year-old Premier personally directed the basic "battle of coal," lifted production from a piddling 23,000 tons daily at the beginning of 1945 to a thumping 80,000 tons daily at the end. Iron & steel, power output soared. Currency...
...Because Premier van Acker's Socialist-Communist-Liberal coalition had kept the nation's nose close to the grindstone, Brussels shop windows bulged with food, clothing, luxuries. The size and variety of Belgian rations made French mouths water...
...UNRRA's help is to end with 1946. The threat of hunger formed the background of disquieting political developments. Democratic forces lost strength when the middle-of-the-road Action Party flew apart in a row between its right wing and moderates. Off went former Premier Ferruccio Parri to form a new middle-class group...