Word: premier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...anybody seen U Saw? What had become of the crafty, witty Premier of Burma who needled the British Empire in its hour of greatest trial? He had dropped from public view in December, 1941. U.S. officials, who could not learn his whereabouts from the British, guessed he was still jailed somewhere in Africa...
...Tabriz, capital of Azerbaijan, a purposeful, middle-aged Communist stooge from Baku, Jafar Pishevari, boldly proclaimed himself Premier of the new Azerbaijan Provincial Government...
...Washington, significantly, Acting Secretary of State Dean Acheson and Dr. Juan Negrin, last Premier of the Spanish Republic, had the first official talks to be held between a high-ranking State Department officer and a high-ranking Spanish Republican in six years. The French Foreign Office sent Washington and London a note suggesting a joint revision (i.e. a possible rupture) in relations with Franco's Spain...
Indonesian moderates, led by Premier Sutan Sjahrir, tried to curb the violence, announced their readiness to meet with the Dutch, "although we will stick to our claim to self-determination...
Saskatchewan's Premier and Health Minister Tommy Douglas cautioned that the report was not necessarily Saskatchewan government policy...