Word: premier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Reza Shah came from a family of small landholders in Mazanderan Province, rose to be colonel in the Iranian Army. When the decrepit regime of Ahmed Shah tottered after World War I, Reza Khan became successively Commander in Chief of the Iranian Army. Minister of War, Premier, finally Shah of Shahs-all in less than five years...
...Shah, Mohamed Reza had to do his diplomatic best. In occasional interviews he spoke hopefully to British and U.S. correspondents of democracy and postwar progress. When cabinets fell (a not infrequent occurrence), he labored dutifully to find a premier who would satisfy the conflicting requirements of the outspoken, hardheaded Russian ambassador, Mikhail A. Maximov, and the reticent, equally hardheaded British ambassador, Sir Reader William Bullard. At palace parties the balance was preserved with similar delicacy. U.S. Ambassador Wallace Murray would be invited to hear an American soprano, the Soviet ambassador, a Russian pianist, the British ambassador, a British actress...
...apparently the Turks had been expecting the same thing. A new party, strategically placed to split any opposition that might develop, was organizing under the leadership of balding, bespectacled, former Premier Jelal Mahmet Bayar. The semi-official newspaper Ulus gave Bayar a significant pat on the back. Said Ulus: "There is no possibility of feeling anything but happiness to have in the opposition a man of such qualifications...
When Crown Prince Umberto, Lieutenant General of the Realm, named him Premier to succeed Ferrucio Parri, De Gasperi was ill with influenza. At first, propped up in bed, sneezing and rheumy-eyed, he haggled with fellow politicians. Then, pale and weak, he left his bedchamber for day-&-night sessions in the Chigi Palace. Punctually at 7 each morning a neighbor's phonograph woke...
This week the Liberals capitulated. Still pale and weak, Premier De Gasperi announced a six-party Cabinet. The purge would continue under Socialist Vice Premier Pietro Nenni. As he and his ministers took their oaths in the Quirinal Palace, Alcide de Gasperi cried out in relief: "You wouldn't believe it, but now my cold is cured...