Word: premier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Back Talk. The Japs talked back. Premier Suzuki, in his first rejection of the Potsdam terms, spoke of rising aircraft production and of a formidable system of underground airplane factories, connected by "a considerably long underground waterway...
...Murayama, a Japanese newsman recently captured in the Philippines, thought that Japan was ripe for surrender. He said that the man picked to arrange it was an almost forgotten political zombie, Admiral and former Premier Keisuke Okada...
...hours next day Premier van Acker berated his King for conduct inimical to the welfare of his country. The Premier charged that Leopold had 1) expected a German victory; 2) interviewed Adolf Hitler after Belgium's capitulation to arrange postwar collaboration with Germany; 3) refused to back the Belgian Government in Exile; 4) rejected advice to escape and join the Maquis...
...Premier T. V. Soong was back in Chungking last week. But what he and Generalissimo Joseph Stalin had talked about in Moscow was a top secret...
...version of the Soong-Stalin talks came from a French source. Primarily, the Chinese Premier had sought Russian support for China's fight against Japan and a Russian pledge not to recognize the Chinese Communist regime. Stalin indicated that he would give the pledge on three conditions : 1 ) China must be democratized through a coalition government worked out between Chungking and Yenan; 2) China must agree to special Russian rights in Sinkiang, Outer Mongolia and China's northern provinces; 3) China must agree to Korea's independence...