Word: premier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bulgaria, the Fatherland Front of Premier Kimon Georgieff was being openly opposed by Agrarians, Social Democrats, plain Democrats, so-called Radicals...
...Rumania, as in other countries, the Opposition was often split, inside and outside the Cabinet. But the Opposition itself was unmistakable. Both National Liberal leader Constantin Dinu Bratianu and Peasant Party chief Juliu Maniu flatly advocated overthrow of the Moscow-backed regime of Premier Peter Groza. Mostly the Opposition program was negatively antiCommunist, but last week Maniu made a positive point : let the U.S. and Britain help the Opposition by recognizing a reconstructed Rumanian Government...
...Poland, already so recognized, only the feeble Labor Party, headed by Karol Popiel, existed legally outside the coalition Government of Premier Edward Osubka-Morawski. But within the coalition, the new Polish Peasant Party, headed by Vice Premier Stanislaw Mikolajczyk (who was in the U.S. last week, on his way home from an international food conference), was making notable strides. Mikolajczyk and his followers were not fighting the Communists or the Russians outright, but they were fighting for a free Poland along the line laid down by the late, great Wincenty Witos (see MILESTONES...
...Regent heaved an episcopal sigh of relief. His month-long quest for a Premier to succeed conservative Admiral Petros Voulgaris was over. In his Athens Palace last week black-bearded, black-robed Archbishop Damaskinos gladly divested himself of his stopgap function as Premier and swore in a new man: slightly-left-of-center Panayotis Kanellopoulos, leader of the National Unionist Party...
...obscurity and the absence of stormy petrels were assets, the new Kanellopoulos I Cabinet was a masterpiece. The Premier himself had done a year's stint as Vice Premier in the wartime government in exile, but most of his Ministers were just names to the Greek in the street. Possibly this was just as well: the new Cabinet's job is to govern Greece only until the national elections, still tentatively...