Word: premier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...young officers' revolt, sake-swilling Okada saved his life by attending his own funeral. His brother-in-law, murdered by mistake, was buried as Okada, and assassins stopped looking for the Premier. Okada politely thanked all who sent condolences, resigned as Premier, returned to his sake and his chrysanthemums...
...Poles came to discuss the western boundary of their country. Some said that all six wanted it deep in old Germany on the Oder-Neisse line, including Stettin; others that three of the Poles, led by Deputy Vice-Premier Stanislaw Mikolajczyk, were more modest. Between Poland's old western boundary and the Oder-Neisse line live some seven million people, the vast majority of whom are German...
Cried dapper ex-Premier Paul Reynaud, 66, who had been Pétain's predecessor: "I, like the rest of France, was fooled by the Marshal. ... He tried to destroy what remained of France's soul...
Cried bull-like ex-Premier Edouard Daladier, 61, who signed the Munich pact: "Pétain betrayed his duties and the charges of his office. . . ." (The sweating jurors sent for cooling drinks. Attendants brought them Vichy water...
Mumbled Léon Blum, 73, Socialist Premier of France's Popular Front Government (1936-37): "The Marshal . . . used his personality . . . and his prestige to lead France into shame. ... I call that treason." (Twice Léon Blum broke down and cried. The Marshal, who once tried Blum for war guilt at Riom, eyed him without visible emotion...