Word: premier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Three former Regents: Prince Cyril, brother of the late Tsar Boris III and uncle of the boy King Simeon II; ex-Premier Professor Bogdan Filoff, Bulgarian expansionist, who preferred making history to teaching it; Lieut. General Nikola Mikhoff, who had held the mistaken belief that the German Army was invincible...
...jail for life, with confiscation of property and a fine of 3,000,000 leva ($36,000 at prewar rates), went Bulgaria's last war Premier, Konstantin Muravieff, Agrarian and liberal, who landed Bulgaria in a three-day war with Russia while trying to remain neutral. Forty-nine Deputies received jail terms...
...Installment. Rumania also prepared its "People's Courts" and firing squads. From a list of 2,000 "war criminals," the Rumanian Government selected a first installment of 100 generals, politicians _ and officials to be tried this week. Heading the list was Rumania's former Dictator and Premier, Marshal Ion Antonescu. When Russia strong-armed Bessarabia and northern Bukovina from Rumania, ten months after the Moscow-Berlin pact (1939), Marshal Antonescu eagerly clasped Hitler's eagerly proffered hand, was unable to unclasp it in time...
Also included were foppish, swaggering Vice Premier Mihai Antonescu (no kin), who was as bitterly anti-Russian as his namesake; General Konstantin Voiculescu, ex-Governor of Bessarabia, who was given to hanging rebellious peasants or drowning them in their wells...
...sprightly young political movement (resurgent Sicilian separatism) and one of Italy's most venerable criminal corporations (the Maffia) had got together to stir up trouble in Sicily for Premier Ivanoe Bonomi's somewhat rachitic Government. Always the separatists had had to make their trouble against odds. The Maffia was a powerful ally...