Word: premier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Premier George Papandreou and EAM were both reportedly agreed on the person of Archbishop Damaskinos, strapping (6 ft. 4 in.), black-bearded prelate who had gone to the Church from the wrestling ring. The respected Archbishop himself had agreed to act for the King...
...most people never heard of-Colonel General Enver Hoxha, 36-had quietly become Premier of Albania's Government and head of its National Liberation Army. Since the Germans had gone and the Allies had never really turned up in force, Hoxha's 30,000 leathery Partisans had swiftly taken over their mountainous, Vermont-sized country...
...Hoxha's men were concerned, the Balkan Federation advocated by Marshal Tito must wait until Albania's private boundary dispute with Greece was settled. But with Soviet Russia, Albania was on cordial terms. Last week Premier Hoxha was busily conferring with a Soviet mission which had dropped...
...Roosevelt's part in the deal in Teheran is not quite clear. It appears that he was not present at the time when Premier Stalin and Mr. Churchill reached their understanding on the division of the Balkans and the partition of Poland. But Mr. Churchill has said that at no time in all the negotiations to induce the Polish Government in London to acquiesce in the deal has Mr. Roosevelt indicated definitely that he would not go along. That is not to say that the Prime Minister indicated that the President ever gave his approval to a plan that...
However, when Mr. Mikolajczyk [former Premier of the Polish Government in Exile] went to Russia, he found W. Averell Harriman, the American Ambassador, a silent neutral observer while Premier Stalin sat as judge and jury and Mr. Churchill had the role of public prosecutor. It was Mr. Churchill who did all the arguing for Premier Stalin at that latest Moscow discussion about Poland's future boundaries, diplomatic informants say. When Mr. Mikolajczyk pleaded for mercy by asking that Vilna and Lwow be included within Poland's frontiers, it is said, Mr. Molotov interrupted him by saying: 'There...