Word: premier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Premier Nicholas Plastiras, the strong man of shaky Greece, found his strength as futile as the walls of Troy. Ulyssean guile, as effective as in the days of the wooden horse, turned him out of office...
...Archbishop named an old Navy man, tubby Admiral Petros Voulgaris, Commander in Chief of the Greek Fleet, as the new Premier. In World War I, the Admiral was a stout supporter of the Allies, a follower of the late great Eleutherios Venizelos. In World War II he made his mark by breaking last year's leftist mutiny aboard Greek warships in Alexandria harbor. Then, as now, he had British forces behind him to help keep Greek from fighting Greek...
...coalition of Socialists, Social Democrats, Communists, Catholics, Agrarians and Independents. Its Premier: Social Democrat Zdenek Fierlinger, rotund ex-Ambassador to Moscow and prime protagonist of friendship with Russia...
...implication of the week came from the Polish Government in London. Its Deputy Premier Jan Jankowski and 14 other representatives of the pro-London Poles in Poland had not been heard from since accepting a Soviet invitation to palaver about the Yalta agreement and broadening the Warsaw Government. Last week the very vocal London Polish Government, whose communication lines with Poland have been thin since the Red Army liberated the country, came out with a sinister communiqué saying that all 15 had "vanished," implying that the Soviet authorities had rubbed them...
Toward Democracy. The Generalissimo was following up his historic New Year's pledge to lead China toward democracy and constitutional government. Last week his Government announced its delegation to the San Francisco security conference. Of ten delegates, only four, including Acting Premier T. V. Soong, were members of China's dominant Kuomintang. The remainder represented minority parties (including the Communists), independent liberals and intellectuals...