Word: premier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...four-motored plane from Chungking came down at Moscow's airport. China's Premier T. V. Soong was the first to alight. He wore a blue suit, but not his horn-rimmed spectacles. Russia's Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Molotov greeted him. The foreign colony stood by, including U.S. Ambassador W. Averell Harriman and British Ambassador Sir Archibald Clark Kerr. A guard of honor snapped to attention. A band played the national anthems of China and Russia...
Immediately T. V. plunged into a round of diplomatic activity which might well mark a new era in Chinese-Russian relations. Within his first four days in Moscow, China's indefatigable Premier saw Generalissimo Stalin twice - with "most gratifying" results, said well-informed sources. He conferred three times with Ambassador Harriman. He was wined & dined by Molotov. He went to a performance of Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite. The audience claqued thunderously for his benefit...
Enter a Mongol. On the fifth day of T. V.'s mission another visitor suddenly arrived from the East: Marshal Kharloin Choibalsan, Premier of the Mongolian People's Republic (Outer Mongolia), the vast, semiarid, herd-rich heartland of Central Asia. Like T. V., Marshal Choibalsan deplaned at the central airport. Like T. V., he was greeted by Molotov, a guard of honor and national music. Like T. V., he conferred with Stalin...
...communiqué disclosed the reason for Premier Choibalsan's appearance. The non-Soviet world knew even less about him than about his Soviet-dominated country. But it knew that he wears the Order of Lenin, for "conspicuous services in organizing material aid to the Red Army in the Mongolian People's Republic," and that in any discussion of Chinese-Russian relations, Marshal Choibalsan's nation will play an important part...
...dhoti, Mohandas K. Gandhi, freed over a year ago. He was not participating in the conference, but his influence permeated it. Also present were the Moslem League's dapper, fractious President Mohamed Ali Jinnah, the Sikh leader Tara Singh, the Punjab's nonLeague Moslem Premier Malik Khizar Hayat Khan Tiwana. But the man on whom, more than on any other, the future of 400 million Indians depended at this climax of 200 years of British rule, was the short, thickset, smiling, one-eyed, taciturn Englishman at the head of the conference table...