Word: premier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...agreed with him that the provisional government of Yugoslavia's Communist Marshal Josip (Tito) Broz needed a lot of improvement. Thus emboldened, King Peter withdrew his previous approval of the government, announced that he had accepted the unoffered "resignation" of its No. 1 figure in London, Premier Ivan Subasich. In short, King Peter tried to force Subasich...
...painful scene: the ladies wept. Premier Subasich wept. But he did not give in. Last week, just in time to save the Big Three from embarrassment, King Peter backed down. Premier Subasich and his cabinet went through the motions of resigning. Then they were immediately reappointed by the King, who also renewed his agreement to let a regency rule...
...victims of Rundstedt's Christmas drive. Belgian political factions had scarcely interrupted (but never really stopped) their quarrel in face of the threat that the drive implied. Last week in Brussels crisis loomed again. The five Socialist members of his Cabinet threatened to withdraw their support from Premier Hubert Pierlot. His Government seemed to be tottering...
...Albert) and her Regent Son Charles to the poorest peasant on the Flanders plain or the meanest miner in the coal-rich Borinage. The upper and middle classes felt a mounting insecurity before social dislocations. The lower classes felt insecurity in everything-and their resentment found a scapegoat in Premier-Pierot, who had spent the war years as head of the Government in Exile in London...
...ELAS guerrillas, tending their sick and wounded during the German occupation of Greece. With British permission, they crossed the lines last week and persuaded the ELAS leaders that they should free most of their hostages and thereby clear the way for a conference with the Greek Government. The Greek Premier, General Nicholas Plastiras, had announced that he would not deal with ELAS until the hostages were freed...