Word: premier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next Iran's elderly Premier, Ebrahim Hakimi, pointed up the growing crisis by resigning. He had pleaded in vain with the Russians to take the Red Army out of the northern parts of his country, withdraw their support from the rebel government that had sprung up in Russian-occupied Azerbaijan...
...Denmark, the largest shipyards stopped for eight hours. Reason: shipworkers did not like Premier Knud Kristensen's anti-Communist talk...
...dark days of 1942, when Prime Minister Churchill broke the news to Premier Stalin that there would be no second front that year, it looked as though the worst had happened. With beleaguered Briton and resentful Russian glaring at each other, the war might be lost. The man who had the two allies warmly toasting each other's health before they parted was His Majesty's Ambassador to Moscow: an emollient, easygoing Scot named Sir Archibald John Kerr Clark Kerr. Last week Clark Kerr (pronounced clark karr) was set for more peacemaking in Britain's current...
...intellectuals who wanted good books and elegant conversation - in Chinese, which the Ambassador found "very straightforward" to learn "because it has no grammar at all." In Russia he served for three wearing, critical years. He first met Stalin accidentally in a Kremlin air raid shelter. Like anyone else, the Premier thawed to the Clark Kerr personality. In the summer months the sporty, informal Scot startled the Russians by dictating reports in the Embassy backyard, stripped to the waist. But they understood and admired his blend of closemouthed diplomacy and forthright candor. In the recent negotiations over broadening the Rumanian Government...
...Premier Kijuro Shidehara, flat on his back with bronchitis, tried hard to prop up his wobbly Cabinet. He accepted the resignations of five ministers on the Allied blacklist, but instead of replacing them with ambitious Liberals or Social Democrats, he chose veteran conservatives and bureaucrats. While the press groaned with dissatisfaction, Shidehara announced that he would carry on until parliamentary elections in "late March or early April...