Word: premier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last fortnight Iran's Premier Mohamed Said Maraghei rejected a Russian request for oil rights in northern Iran.* Last week Moscow cracked down on Said...
Back in London was Polish Premier Stanislaw Mikolajczyk, with the new Churchill-Stalin formula for solving the Polish question to present to his Cabinet...
Sicilian separatists want independence from Italy. Last week Sicilian separatism reached the shooting stage. In Palermo, Italian troops tommy-gunned 2,500 rioting Sicilians, killed 19, wounded 102. In Rome dry, precise British Ambassador Sir Noel Charles conveyed to Premier Ivanoe Bonomi's hard-pressed Government a precise, official message from London: any report that Britain was supporting Sicilian separation was utterly false...
...Poland came first. Premier Mikolajczyk, with his Foreign Minister Tadeusz Romer, his Speaker of the Assembly Stanislaw Grabski, fled to Moscow from London. Hardly were they settled in the Metropole when from Lublin came the leaders of the Polish National Liberation Committee: Edward Osubka-Morawski, Boleslaw Berut, Colonel General Michal Rola-Zymierski. Sitting side by side in the Kremlin, Stalin and Churchill talked to each group separately. Then they told them to get together. Weeks before, in London, Premier Mikolajczyk had told a group of U.S. Congressmen that he knew he would eventually have to yield to the Russians...
...also celebrated Free China's anniversary, paid tribute to China's struggle. In Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel nearly a thousand leading U.S. friends of China heard United China Relief's President James L. McConaughy, Ambassador Wei Tao-ming, China's Vice Premier and Finance Minister, Dr. H. H. Kung, describe China's indomitable struggle and desperate needs...