Word: premier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...France's ex-Premiers Léon Blum, Socialist leader of the 1936 Popular Front. Edouard Daladier, the only surviving man of Munich, and Paul Reynaud, the last unhappy Premier who yielded France to Marshal Pétain...
...Ferenc Szalasi, ex-Nazi Premier of Hungary who succeeded Horthy, caught at Mattsee, in Austria, where he had been hiding for months with 23 relatives...
...Said Premier Suzuki: "I am determined to fight through this war with all I have...
...London Poles' list of vanished leaders had included 70-year-old Wicenty Witos, three times Premier of Poland and most distinguished of all the underground figures. Last week the Russians, elaborating Molotov's account, denied that Witos was under arrest. Apparently he was in Moscow, doing what he could to arrange an honorable agreement. The Russians concentrated their propaganda fire on General Okulicki, probably intending to use his record against the rest...
Embarrassment by Bombers. But the most embarrassing commuter dropped down on the Barcelona airport in a Junkers bomber piloted by two Luftwaffe officers in mufti. From the plane onto neutral Spanish soil stepped French ex-Premier Pierre Laval in black felt hat and his invariable white tie. He was nervously puffing a cigaret. Behind him came his wife and two Vichy Ministers, Abel Bonnard (Education) and Maurice Gabolde (Justice). Laval's heavy baggage included expensive jewelry, a swatch of French banknotes, bundles of political documents...