Word: premier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Japan was appalled. By Tokyo's account, Premier Kantaro Suzuki "saw with his own eyes" how flames had hit the sanctified preserve, hastened to apologize to the Emperor for the "inexcusable outrage," then called an extraordinary meeting of the Cabinet and issued a "reverent statement relative to the burning of the Imperial Palace." Other broadcasts wailed that "the greater part of metropolitan Tokyo" was "literally scorched to the ground." To the Japanese people Suzuki sadly announced: "Our beautiful capital must be completely replanned from a bare start...
...half Japanese, is poised like a blockbuster at the head of the Japanese archipelago. Last week the bleak, sparsely peopled island was the subject of a sudden blaze of Soviet publicity. Without exception, every Moscow morning newspaper published a two-column letter from the workers of Russian Sakhalin, thanking Premier Joseph Stalin for their liberation from the "horrors" of Japanese occupation 20 years ago. They promised: "We shall not relax our efforts one minute ... to bolster our defenses." The letter was also read in full by the Moscow radio...
...Francisco China's able Acting Premier T. V. Soong took time out from the world security conference to set the record straight. His explanation...
...Chinese currency and thereby combat Chinese inflation. On March 28 the Government gave secret instructions to its banks that the price of gold would be raised on the 30th, March 29 being a bank holiday. When the returns on the sale of gold on March 28 came in. Premier Soong promptly noticed that the figure was double the average of preceding days. This was prima facie evidence of a leak...
Marriage Revealed. Léon Blum, 73, France's coldly intellectual Socialist ex-Premier; and Jeanne Levilliers Torres Reichenbach, fiftyish, onetime wife of brainy Gaullist Lawyer Henri Torres ; both for the third time; during Blum's four-year imprisonment in a Nazi concentration camp...