Word: premier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Premier Joseph Stalin laid out the Red Army's objectives: "Now the last, final mission remains for the Red Army, namely to complete, together with the armies of our Allies, the task of defeating the German fascist armies, finishing off the fascist beast in his own lair and raising over Berlin the banner of victory. There is ground to reckon on this task being fulfilled by the Red Army in the near future...
...immediate cause of the trouble. Iran's Premier Mohamed Said Maraghei was being briskly boiled in oil last week, and even the U.S. had been spattered with a few hot drops. The fire was lit by Sergei Kavtaradze, Soviet Vice Commissar of Foreign Affairs, who presented Said with a Russian proposal for oil concessions in northern Iran (TIME, Oct. 30). Said said no, but Kavtaradze would not take no for an answer. From Teheran, where he lingered, he denounced the head of Iran's Cabinet. From afar the Russian press echoed his charges that Said was a Russophobe...
Britain and the U.S. backed Premier Said, who had refused them further concessions at the same time that he refused the Russians. From London the BBC beamed the British view to Iranians: "The Iranian Government decided to make no oil concessions until after the war. Sir Reader William Bullard, British Minister, is in close touch with the Iranian Government and he has no objection to their decision." The U.S. was reported to have told the Iranian Government: Iran's decision does not cause the U.S. Government regret or alarm because Iran is an independent country...
...Iran during an earlier occupation. Carefully uncriticized was Reza's son, young Shah Mohamed Reza Pahlavi, who was well on the way to becoming the King Mihai of Asia's Balkans. The Russians had already hinted to him that he might be able to find a new premier...
...instability, buzzed back to Washington to pour his frightening reports into the Presidential ear. Then there were President Roosevelt's personal representatives, Donald Nelson, all new to China and China to him, and Major General Patrick Hurley. Worldly, well-tailored Pat Hurley stopped off in Moscow to garner Premier Molotov's assurances that Russia has no designs on China, stopped off in Chungking to lecture Chiang Kai-shek on the urgent need to cooperate with Russia and the Chinese Communists. The Generalissimo, however, believed that his Government's most urgent need was more supplies...