Word: premier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...done something. But Lublin's land policy has already split up many of their estates among the peasants. The landlords have gone into local administrative posts (when they played ball with Lublin), or gone to jail (when they did not). In London the Government in Exile was powerless. Premier Tomasz Arciszewski could merely growl: "We refuse to become a new Soviet Republic even under the name of 'independent Poland.'" Ex-Premier Mikolajczyk was already being denounced by Lublin as a "traitor to the Polish peasants"-a new version of the "enemy of the people," the formula that...
...Government of Premier Ivanoe Bonomi called for the creation of Italy's own volunteer army...
Then the Communist Party announced that it would promote a people's army. The Socialist and Action Parties, both of the left opposition, added their cordial endorsement. Palmiro Togliatti, who is both Italy's Vice Premier and Communist Party secretary, presumably took the plan to the Cabinet. Last week the Government added its official blessing...
Tired, aging Premier Bonomi was not seeking to add to his burdens. A volunteer army, functioning side by side with Italy's regular Army, would undoubtedly be a burden of major proportions. But the Government's demand might goad the unwilling Allies into giving Italy the enhanced military and political status it had been vainly seeking for months. For Premier Bonomi, as for the leftists, the volunteer army was a political weapon...
Peace by Force. Peace had been won not by the truce which the British had offered ELAS, but by military force. In a pronouncement as stiff as his mustachios, Greece's new Premier, General Nicholas Plastiras, 62, brusquely warned ELAS that they had better capitulate politically...