Word: premier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...visit from Memphis' owlish Democratic Boss Ed Crump. Leaving the White House, Ed Crump was mum. Scuttlebutt had it that he had been summoned in an effort to get him to stop Tennessee's Senator Kenneth McKellar, the Senate's premier spoilsman, from trying to wreck...
...closed in on Japan with a rapidity which, only a year ago, seemed inconceivable. Last week, as a great fleet of B-29s made the heaviest demolition attack on the Japanese heartland, Premier Kuniaki Koiso and his cronies (see FOREIGN NEWS) gibbered of invasion. Actually, Allied forces now have no base large enough, or close enough to Japan, to launch amphibious operations against the main islands. But they are moving ahead on an accelerated schedule, and this week, by Jap account, an amphibious force was off the Kerama Islands, within sight of Okinawa, within 400 miles of Kyushu. If confirmed...
...solemnly call upon General Franco . . . to relinquish power . . . ." In Paris moderate Miguel Maura, one time Minister of the Interior, declared that most Spaniards were opposed to the monarchy. In London, astute Juan Negrin. the Republic's last Premier, labored quietly for a Republican comeback...
Best known pro-Russian was aging (74), independent Premier Juho Paasikivi, who said in a pre-election speech: "Our policy must never again be directed against the Soviet Union." Moscow's most ardent advocate was thirtyish, fiery-eyed Hertta Kuusinen, daughter of oldtime Comintern functionary, now high Soviet official Otto Kuusinen (who stayed in Russia). Hertta Kuusinen's instrument was that familiar Communist device, a Democratic Front-composed in Finland of Communists, small farmers and a splinter of the old Social Democratic Party, once the country's biggest. Chief anti-Russian was tough...
...Britain were "in consultation" with Moscow over the new Government in Bucharest (TIME, March 19). But London and Washington clearly did not intend to let the Rumanian issue make or break Big Three relations. One reason was that neither Britain nor the U.S. had any practical alternative to offer. Premier Peter Groza and his Communist instrument, the National Democratic Front, had undoubtedly been raised to power by Moscow for Moscow's purposes. The ousted premier, General Nicolai Radescu, undoubtedly had good reason to seek haven in the British Legation, where he prudently remained last week. But critical British...