Word: premier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cabinet of 28 members, the Marshal took the key portfolios of Premier and National Defense. To Ivan Subasich went the Foreign Ministry. Of the 26 other ministers, 21 were Titomen...
From the Quirinale, an angry column marched to the Viminale (Government headquarters). There a delegation of its leaders, including Unità's fiery Editor Velio Spano, who is also a member of the Communist Party's Central Executive Committee, handed Premier Ivanoe Bonomi an ultimatum: immediate and drastic reforms, or resign. Said Bonomi: "This is no time for me to desert...
Hurriedly the Premier called his four-party (Christian Democrat, Labor Democrat, Liberal, Communist) Cabinet into session. Then Foreign Minister Alcide de Gasperi, chief of the Christian Democrats, handed Vice Premier Palmiro Togliatti. boss Communist, an ultimatum: call off the Communist attack on the Government, or resign. But the Communist Party ordered Togliatti not to resign...
...Parliament Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden reported: "The Soviet Government has informed the British Ambassador in Moscow . . . that to meet the wishes of the British Government they are taking steps at once to set Mme. Arcizewska free." The elderly wife of Polish Premier Tomasz Arcizewski had been arrested in Poland by the NKVD (Russian secret police). Asked if there were any reasons for her arrest, the Foreign Secretary answered: "I have been given some, but I thought in the light of the happy conclusion to my inquiries it would be better to leave it there...
...Kosice, which will be Czechoslovakia's capital until Prague is liberated, Benes will stop in Moscow to discuss matters with Joseph Stalin. Most likely successor to Premier Monsignor Jan Sramek, of the Czech People's Catholic Party, will be Vavro Srobar, a Slovak and an agrarian leftist. Other ministerial portfolios will go to a national front coalition, including Socialists (Benes' party), Communists (No. 4 party in pre-Munich Czechoslovakia), Social Democrats. Czech People's Catholics, Small Farmers (a leftist group) and the Slovak National Council (Slovak resistance...