Word: premier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hotly the General denied the charge that Pétain had "plotted" France's defeat in order to seize personal power. He maintained that Pétain had secretly ordered cooperation with the Allies in North Africa. Testily he exchanged taunts with ex-Premier Paul Reynaud. If Pétain had erred, said Weygand, it was the fault of "his evil genius," Vichy's Chief of Government Pierre Laval...
...witness continued: he was not responsible for the murders of French patriots by Vichyminister Joseph Darnand's notorious "Blackbird" militia. He had denounced no one. In fact, he personally had saved ex-Premier Reynaud and Léon Blum from Gestapo execution. The prosecution confronted Laval with a letter he had written to Pétain: "... A few spectacular executions will prevent disorder and anarchy. . . ." Cried Laval: "I respect human life." (Searing laughter in the courtroom...
...Foreign Minister (a post in which Premier T. V. Soong had hitherto doubled) the Government (or Chiang) appointed Wang Shih-chieh, 54, lawyer, educator, scholar and veteran administrator. A European-educated liberal (Universities of London and Paris), Dr. Wang has long advised Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek on foreign affairs. Last year he served as the Central Government's chief representative in its bootless negotiations with the Communists. As Information Minister since last November, he considerably liberalized the censorship...
Fleet Street laughed at the story of a BBC reporter who went to Lyons, asked France's blunt ex-Premier Edouard Herriot for a casual statement. Asked Herriot: "How much money...
Expertly appraising this booming market, France's smooth, slick ex-Premier and Finance Minister Reynaud announced that he was going to write his memoirs, refused to reveal what would be in them, put the unwritten opus up for auction...