Word: premier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Faced with a hastily accomplished fact, Washington and London did not demand the immediate resignations of non-Communist Premier Peter Groza and his "National Front" Cabinet. Instead, the tests of Yalta were: 1) the Groza Government's future behavior; 2) the Kremlin's immediate willingness to talk things over with the U.S. and Britain. And the Kremlin was willing...
This maneuver had been arranged with great speed. The new Government made its "request" March 8; Stalin granted it on March 10 in an extraordinary, personal letter to Premier Groza and his Foreign Minister, a non-Communist politician named George Tatarescu. But the return of Transylvania to Rumania was an Allied policy, actively supported by Britain and agreed to by the U.S. when the Big Three signed the Rumanian armistice last September. In his letter of blessing, Stalin took pains to base his decision on the Allied precedent. He may well have had an eye cocked at London and Washington...
...London, Poland's ex-Premier Stanislaw Mikolajczyk indicated his terms for joining the new Government: the Russians must halt all deportations, withdraw their secret police (the NKVD, formerly the GPU), release all Poles from concentration camps, freely admit the foreign press to Poland, grant complete political freedom to all Poles (presumably including Russia's avowed enemies), guarantee Allied super vision of Polish elections. Addressing the House of Commons, Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden bluntly warned Moscow that the British Government regarded the present Warsaw Poles with extreme distaste, expected something much more decent to emerge...
...response to all the criticism, Moscow did not explode and go its lone way, as it certainly would have done in the past. Instead, the Russians quietly released Mme. Tomasz Arciszewska, wife of the London Poles', anti-Russian Premier, whose arrest in Poland had touched off a storm of British protest. If Yalta had done nothing else, it had put the Russians on their best public behavior...
...objections of last January (TIME, Jan. 22), obediently picked three regents (two Titomen, one King's man) from a list of six sent him by the Marshal. With the royal capitulation in his hands, Tito swiftly merged his partisan National Committee of Liberation with the Royal Government of Premier Ivan Subasich to form the new (no longer royal) "Government of Democratic Federal Yugoslavia...