Word: premier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Italy's coalition government fell apart. Deserted by the right wing of his Cabinet, Premier Ferruccio Parri resigned. To Italy's fractious factions he addressed a warning...
Portugal, which has not had a real election for 20 years, held another mock ballot this week. Premier Antonio de Oliveira Salazar's ticket won a unanimous victory. The opposition, protesting that registration lists were rigged, abstained from voting...
...days before the vote came the note. It was handed to Premier Kimon Georgieff, head of Bulgaria's Communist-dominated Fatherland Front, by U.S. Diplomatic Representative Maynard Barnes; its warning was based on the findings of Presidential Investigator Mark F. Etheridge...
...British got Dutch and Indonesian leaders together in Batavia for an in conclusive peace talk. The Dutch had refused to deal with President Soekarno of the "Indonesian Republic" because he collaborated with the Japs. So Soekarno, while keeping nominal power, took a back seat and a new Premier appeared. The new Indonesian leader is small (4 ft. 10½ in., 100 lbs.), scholarly, socialistic Sjahrir, 36. He met his Dutch wife while studying law at Amsterdam, later saw her packed back to Holland when the Dutch exiled him for nationalist activities. He has never seen their twelve-year...
Doris Duke Cromwell, a Rome reporter for I.N.S., stole the show from Premier Ferruccio Parri at his own press conference: while photographers took 20 pictures of her to every one of the Premier, she became so flustered she forgot to take notes on the conference...