Word: premier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Plainly the next move was up to the Polish Premier. And out of loyalty to Poland and loyalty to peace there seemed to be only one way in which he could move-toward Russia...
...Paris, there was still an afterglow of liberation gaiety-but it was forced. Belgians needed food, clothing, fuel. Transport was paralyzed. This week the Allied High Command began diverting 200 tons of food daily for 20 days, to help meet Belgian needs. It would bolster, it might save Premier Hubert Pierlot's Government. But in Belgium, as in France, Communism had grown and hardened under the Nazis. Belgian Communists sternly charged Pierlot's Government with inefficiency. Said London's New Statesman and Nation: "This is the opening round in the struggle between new revolutionary forces ... and groups...
Four weeks ago, canny Giovanni Vis-conti-Venosta, Premier Bonomi's Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs, got tired of trying to work through the Roman dusk by candle and carbide light.* One afternoon when Britain's High Commissioner, prim Sir Noel Charles, was to call, Visconti-Venosta personally ordered every candle and sputtering carbide light in the Palazzo Chigi doused. Sir Noel walked into Stygian gloom, groped his way through the Chigi's interminable passages and waiting rooms, conferred ghost-to-ghost with Visconti-Venosta. whose face never cracked a smile. Next day Visconti-Venosta wrote...
Honest old Premier Ivanoe Bonomi read a statement: the change in Italy's international status, he hoped, would eventually apply to internal affairs as well. That, Italians recalled, was their hope when they had cheered the Roosevelt-Churchill order to drop the hated word "control" from Allied Control Commission, the Roosevelt-Churchill promise of greater authority for the Italian Government...
Meanwhile moderate Premier George Papandreou, who had arrived with the British troops, reorganized his Cabinet. He refused to grant EAM more than five of the 28 Cabinet portfolios. Reportedly, he won EAM's agreement to a gradual disarming of its military branch, the ELAS. Said Greek leftists sourly: such concessions had "lost the revolution...