Word: premier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...theme song of the conference was: "Scandinavians, get together." Even Sweden's cautious Premier Per Albin Hansson was stirred to apostrophize a common Scandinavian labor market, economic collaboration, common Nordic citizenship. Laski too was stirred. Hailing the advance of socialism in Britain, France, Belgium and Scandinavia, he cried: -"All of us stand side by side...
...soon in London was a stalwart trusty of Europe's only functioning bloc -Russia's eastern grouping. Czechoslovak Premier Zdenek Fierlinger was coming to discuss British-Czech relations, and, perhaps, to test the political velocity of the new democratic wind blowing from the west...
...German Premier: Marshal Georgi Zhukov. His deputy prime minister: one Leo Skrzypczinsky, described as a former German factory owner who spent four years in a concentration camp. A political unknown, without party affiliation, Skrzypczinsky was recommended by the Communists. Under Premier Marshal Zhukov were twelve ministries (one for each division of the Soviet Military Government), each headed by a Red Army officer. Under each Red Army officer was a German state secretary (selected from lists submitted by the four "antifascist" parties). As state secretaries, the Russians picked five Communists, three Social Democrats, two Christian Democrats, one Liberal Democrat, one nonparty...
Just as the echoes of last spring's Dominion-wide electioneering died away, Canadians learned that they were in for some more tub thumping. British Columbia's Premier John Hart called a provincial election for Oct. 25, Manitoba's Premier Stuart Sinclair Garson got ready to do the same (probable date: some time between...
...half-past eleven on the wintry night of Feb. 1, 1939, the Spanish Republican Government of Premier Juan Negrin assembled in the basement of an ancient castle near the snowy Pyrenees. Their three-year struggle against Franco and his Nazi-Fascist allies was broken at last; under German and Italian bombardment, a half million starving, destitute Spaniards were straggling through the mountains toward the French border...