Word: premier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...while Moscow's Pravda underlined the withdrawal from Iran of U.S. troops (which had been supplying Russia with Lend-Lease) by a blast against the Iranian Government. Farther east, the overheated Russo-Chinese relations promised to cool as, after a fortnight of negotiations in Moscow, China's Premier T. V. Soong flew east to Chungking, Generalissimo Joseph Stalin flew west to the Big Three conference in the ruins of Berlin (see INTERNATIONAL). But at week's end, the Chinese Communists seemed about to declare their independence of Chungking...
...Poland's Warsaw Government. But of the Yalta agreement (to broaden that Government by the inclusion of democratic Poles, pending democratic national elections) little was left. The "broadened" Warsaw Government was still dominated by Russia through Polish Communists and fellow travelers. Last week the election promise was deferred. Premier Edward Osubka-Morawski announced that he, personally, would like to see an election soon, but "until harvesting, repatriation and resettlement are finished, we must not divert attention from these basic tasks." Since repatriation and resettlement involve several million people, the Polish election was in effect indefinitely postponed...
...getting into each other's sphere of influence and into each other's hair. The controlled Yugoslav press, taking its cue from Marshal Tito's blast at Greek "terrorism" (TIME, July 16), screamed insistently about "20,000" Slav refugees from Macedonia. To Salonika from Athens hurried Premier Admiral Petros Voulgaris to make a personal investigation...
...Athens Regent Archbishop Damaskinos met attack with counterattack. For Greece he claimed the Epirus section of southern Albania, where "many of our people are suffering persecution" under Albania's Premier Enver Hoxha. Hoxha is believed to have somewhat the same relation to Marshal Tito that Tito has to the Kremlin...
...While Premier T. V. Soong flew back to Chungking from apparently fruitful talks with Generalissimo Joseph Stalin in Moscow, the Yenan radio broadcast startling news. Last week in Yenan 116 delegates from all the Communist areas of north, south and central China met in plenary session...