Word: premier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Premier William John Patterson, Liberal, who did not know his Lenin, attacked the C.C.F. for confusing "socialism and cooperation by making them appear synonymous." Then he and his fellow Liberals voted with the C.C.F. for the new bill. This was smart politics, for nowhere in Canada are cooperatives so popular and successful as in Saskatchewan, where 1,000 societies with 250,000 members own and operate their own businesses. Among the most unusual: Regina's Funeral Cooperative Association Ltd., organized July 1, 1943 to combat the high cost of dying...
Urgent Adjuration. When he came to the subject of Poland, it was evident that Winston Churchill had, in effect, underwritten Russia's Polish solution. He urgently adjured Premier Stanislaw Mikolajczyk to return to Poland to head the Polish Government, gave the London Poles a sharp reprimand for not having come to terms with Russia sooner. Said Churchill: "I hope Mr. Mikolajczyk will soon return to Moscow, and it will be a great disappointment to all sincere friends of Poland if a good arrangement cannot be made which will enable them to form a Polish Government on Polish soil...
Well did Winston Churchill know that Premier Mikolajczyk's return to Poland implied a split in the Polish Government in Exile. General Kasimierz Sosnkowski and other London Poles who refused to accept a Russian-dominated Poland were reported to have bought properties in Brazil, where they planned to go into permanent exile. General Bor (indicted by Lublin as a traitor) and his Partisans -the only other organized anti-Russian group-were in even more permanent exile in German prison camps...
Stalin could scarcely ask for more than that Churchill should urge Mikolajczyk's return. For in the Russian solution of the Polish question, Premier Mikolajczyk was the Kremlin's indispensable man. The heavily Communist Lublin Government was not the kind of popular-front goverment that Marshal Stalin intends to set up in Europe's Russia-neighboring countries.* Moreover, the Lublin Government was composed of political nonentities, scarcely known even in Poland, with no standing at all in the world. And they had been weakened by the recent resignation, as a result of the failure of Lublin...
Cried the Soviet trade-union paper Trud: "Iranian newspapers are inquiring why Premier Said does not resign, as are all public circles in Iran who understand that continuation of Premier Said's policy is harming the interests of Iran...