Word: premier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Czech Premier Zdenek Fierlinger vigorously denied a report that the Jáchymov mines were being worked by Russians. (The report had also stated that the uranium was being sent to Dresden, in the Russian zone of Germany. Fierlinger did not deny this...
Despite Vishinsky's efforts, Bevin won and Iran remained on the Council agenda. But London thought Vishinsky might win his case indirectly. The Iranian Majlis (Parliament) had chosen a new Premier, 65-year-old Ahmed Qavam, by a vote of 52-to-51. In spite (or because) of his large holdings in Azerbaijan, Qavam is Iran's most pro-Soviet politician. At any time he might withdraw the Iranian Appeal...
...relaxed in his old-rose, well-upholstered chair on the blue-&-gold rostrum, sometimes made a note with a gigantic goose quill, quickly handled awkward situations. One spat came after Ambassador Gromyko had urged that the Communist-backed World Federation of Trade Unions (W.F.T.U.) be granted UNO representation. Peppery Premier Peter Fraser of New Zealand spoke up angrily: "Unless we get a resolution with which Mr. Gromyko agrees on every dot and comma, he is not satisfied. I throw that back in his teeth." Said Gromyko: "The method adopted by Mr. Fraser is far from wise. I might equally throw...
Britain's Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin told a tense House of Commons last week that terror had become an instrument of national policy in the new Poland. Many members of Vice Premier Stanislaw Mikolajczyk's Polish Peasant Party who opposed the Communist-dominated Warsaw Government had been murdered. "Circumstances in many cases appear to point to the complicity of the Polish Security Police. ... I regard it as imperative that the Polish Provisional Government should put an immediate stop to these crimes in order that free and unfettered elections may be held as soon as possible, in accordance with...
...stamping a promise made by the Moscow meeting, voted to end censorship. Next day one or two papers blossomed forth with editorials in favor of civil liberties. And the next day one newspaper was wholly suppressed for 15 days and two others had their editorials ripped out. Blandly the Premier reminded the press that there might be fewer papers soon because newsprint was so scarce...