Word: premier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Grim Correctness. In this, whatever their motives, they were probably somewhat more realistic than the Allied governments. Stalin's intentions had been perfectly clear for months. He had high-pressured the London Poles, in the person of ex-Premier Stanislaw Mikolajczyk, to join his Lublin Committee-on Lublin's terms. He had informed his Teheran colleagues of his decision to establish a friendly regime in Poland. When they asked him to wait a little while, he had graciously acceded. But he had never changed his plans...
...another across a table. At the head, in his flowing black robes of office, sat the chairman, towering, bearded Archbishop Damaskinos, primate of the Greek Orthodox Church, no politician but now deeply concerned with the politics of his country's agony. Down one side sat lanky, leonine Premier George Papandreou with members of his Government and leaders of other political groups. At the other end were Churchill, Eden, Field Marshal Sir Harold Alexander, Lieut. General Ronald Scobie, U.S. Ambassador Lincoln MacVeagh, French Ambassador Jean Batlen, Soviet Military Attaché Colonel Gregory Popoff. Only the ELAS seats were vacant...
...take all steps necessary to restore order and tranquility," that the King would not return to Greece "unless summoned by a free and fair expression of national will." The Archbishop proclaimed his own immediate two-point plan: 1) a new national Government, 2) cessation of the civil war. Promptly Premier Papandreou and his Cabinet resigned...
...Russians with his staff last October after Regent Nicholas Horthy's ill-fated try for an armistice. Among his ministers: an author and student of agrarian reform; a history professor jailed by Horthy for "subversive activities" ; a geology professor and cousin of Count Paul Teleki, ex-Premier who committed suicide in April 1941. Notably absent was Hungary's top Communist, Matyas Rakosi, sixtyish, stout ex-commissar in the Communist Government of Béla Kun after World War I, later vice president of the Comintern. Rakosi presumably was in Moscow...
...head of Albania's Army, Colonel General Hoxha talked tough in the direction of Greece's Premier Papandreou. Hoxha said flatly that his country would fight to protect itself against Greek claims to southern Albania. As Premier, Hoxha promised private ownership of property, universal suffrage, national mobilization of labor to rebuild the devastated country, punishment of war criminals...