Word: premier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Aging (78), analytical Léon Blum, ex-Premier and head of the 1936 Popular Front, came out of a German concentration camp to resume the leadership of the Socialists. Says he: "We have at this moment many friends, even a few too many. We are not the saviors of bourgeois capitalism...
Chungking had several observers at the polls. But long before the results were in, the Central Government wrote off its claim to nominal sovereignty. Generalissimo Chiang's regime prepared to establish diplomatic relations with Premier Marshal Choibalsan's "independent," Sovietized Republic of Outer Mongolia. This week Moscow reported a "unanimous" vote for "independence" by the Mongolians. All voters had to sign their ballots...
...Canada. As virtually everyone thought it would, the socialist CCF Party took another lick ing at the polls this week-this time in Manitoba. In that province's first election since 1941 (and Canada's first since war's end), the Liberal-Conservative coalition of Premier Stuart Sinclair Garson won easily...
...greying provincial leader Seymour James Farmer had raised the banner of a "bold and practical people's program," had charged that the Garson coalition was the "tool of big business." What Manitoba needed, he cried, was a socialist regime like Saskatchewan's. Saskatchewan's CCF Premier Thomas C. Douglas bounded over the border with four of his Cabinet ministers and stumped around rural Manitoba to spread the word...
...Premier Garson's coalition had a running start, with seven members elected by acclamation (without opposition). He needed only 21 more seats to be sure of a majority in the 55-seat legislature. On a warm, Indian-summer voting day, Manitobans marched to the polls in droves, gave him considerably more seats than he needed...