Word: premier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Inside the school were Grand Admiral Karl Doenitz, "the last Reichsführer," and his ill-assorted but determined ministers-Count Lutz Schwerin von Krosigk, acting premier, foreign minister and minister of finance; Franz Seldte, labor minister; Herbert Backe, agriculture; Julius Dorpmüller, transportation; and Albert Speer, Hitler's master of production. All but Dorpmüller were hyperactive Nazis...
Meanwhile Rumania's firing squads were oiling their rifles. The War Crimes Courts started with the first batch of 25 high Rumanian officers and officials. It was headed by ex-Premier General Constantin Sanatescu, formerly King Mihai's aide-de-camp. On the night of the coup d'état which overthrew the pro-Axis Government, General Sanatescu helped the King imprison Dictator Ion Antonescu in a vault built for ex-King Carol's stamp collection. Later, Sanatescu formed the first pro-Allied Government...
Last week Tass, official Soviet news agency, reported that Peter Grozja, Russia's puppet Premier of Rumania, had called for the formation of a Soviet-sponsored league of Danubian states (presumably Rumania, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Hungary, Austria and Czechoslovakia...
Down beflagged streets jammed with half a million cheering Danes drove the sternly smiling monarch and the royal family. Inside ancient Christiansborg Palace, in a ceremony devoid of pomp but charged with emotion, the King ceremoniously opened the new Parliament convened by Premier Vilhelm Buhl. More than once his voice almost broke...
...Premier Buhl's coalition Cabinet included two popular leaders: Minister of Foreign Affairs was John Christmas Moeller, underground leader; Minister Abroad was Henrik de Kauffmann, who, as Danish Minister to the U.S., brought Greenland into the war on the Allied side. The Cabinet also included three Social Democrats, two Communists...