Word: premier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Britain Premier Tomasz Arciszewski and the Polish Government in Exile waited for sentence of political death to be passed upon them. Last week it came-the U.S. and Britain recognized the Warsaw Government as the legal government of Poland. Thereby they withdrew recognition from the legal heir of the Polish government for which Britain had gone to war with Germany...
...Premier Marshal Tito last week charged that Greek forces had fired across the Yugoslav frontier in an effort "to provoke us." Thousands of Macedonians, he said, had escaped into Yugoslavia to escape Greek terrorism. "Our soldiers," Tito added, "have not replied with a single shot." At the same time Moscow, which last week reported similar atrocities from Macedonia, announced that the National Front Government of Federal Macedonia had protested to the Yugoslav Government that "fascist" Greek organizations, supported by units of the Greek Army, were carrying on a reign of terror. The Macedonian organization, said Tass, official Russian news agency...
Mohamed Ali Jinnah, president of the Moslem League, wore an English-style hat, a smartly-cut lounge suit. Malik Khizar Hayat Khan Tiwana, Premier of the Punjab and spearhead of India's war effort, was dashing in a snow-white, plumed turban. Tara Singh, leader of the warlike Sikhs, was resplendent in a bright blue turban. He carried a kirpan (carved Sikh sword...
...names submitted by both parties. If both parties disagreed with his choices, they might refuse to participate in the new government. If the League preferred to stay out, the Viceroy might form a new government anyhow, naming as Moslem ministers such nonLeague Moslems as the Punjab's Premier Malik Khizar Hayat Khan Tiwana...
...weapons for the kill. Vast areas of industrial Japan were in ruins from bombing. A more & more hermetic blockade from sea and air was closing in. In Okinawa the U.S. forces were only 325 miles from the home archipelago. From Siberia fell the lengthening shadow of Russia. Cried Premier Kantaro Suzuki: Japan's crisis "is the greatest since the Mongolian invasion...