Word: premier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...General Hideki Tojo, who started it all, is no longer premier of Japan, but, according to the Tokyo radio, "grappling for the successful conclusion of the war" by working in his victory vegetable garden...
Just before he flew back from Moscow to London (TIME, Aug. 14), Premier Mikolajczyk asked correspondents if they could tell him who one of the negotiators from Chelm was: a man named Boleslaw Berut. Mikolajczyk had never heard of Berut before. Last week the Lublin government announced that the practically unknown Communist was now President of Poland. His appointment disregarded the fact that Wladyslaw Raczkiewicz has been President in Exile of Poland since October 1939. It also raised the Polish problem to a new boiling point. Plainly Moscow had decided that it was time for the Lublin Poles...
Last week an old man and an old issue turned up again in Italy. The man was ex-Premier Vittorio Emanuele Orlando, 84. The issue was the control of Fiume and the Istrian peninsula. The two had appeared together before in history...
...Versailles Orlando had been one of the Big Four - with Wilson, Lloyd George, Clemenceau. Then Wilson had stubbornly refused to grant Fiume to Italy. Orlando had failed to overcome Wilson's objection, and the resentful Italians had driven their Premier into political oblivion...
They included some of France's most famous writers : Poet Louis Aragon ("François la Colère") ; François Mauriac ("Forez") ; Livération Editor Claude Morgan ("Mortagne"); Poet Jean Cassou ("Jean Noir"), and (anonymously) Roger Giron, Chief of Cabinet in Premier Reynaud's last Government. Reprinted for Les Editions from smuggled foreign copies were John Steinbeck's Nuits Noires (The Moon Is Down) and exiled Catholic Philosopher Jacques Maritain's A Travers le Désastre...