Word: premier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week the Rumanians handed over to the Russians ex-Premier Ion Antonescu, ex-Foreign Minister Mihai Antonescu (no kin), famed Nazi Balkan Expert Dr. Karl Clodius...
Peace and Paralysis. Next in line were the Finns. Minus their chairman, Premier Antti Hackzell, who had suffered a stroke four hours before, they marched up to the Kremlin to learn their fate. Without audible comment they sent the terms to Helsinki. Then the Germans, on orders from Berlin, went back on their agreement to evacuate Finland, began to attack. Angrily, the Finns said a state of war existed with Germany, sent Foreign Minister Carl Enckell to Moscow to give the Government's answer. At week's end there was no sure sign whether Russia's terms...
Swoop and Pounce. Nobody was more interested in armistice terms than the Bulgarians, whom the Russians had knocked in & out of a war by a sudden swoop and pounce last week. Delegates of Premier Kimon Georgiev's new Government might be the next guests in Spasso House. The Red Army was already in Sofia...
...also on the Turkish frontier. A fortnight ago Pravda had lambasted Turkey for not jumping into the war. Now Russians were harping on an old familiar chord-internationalization of the Bosporus and the Dardanelles. The last time Turkish Premier Sükrü Saracoglu saw Moscow was in 1939, when Russia vainly tried to persuade him to close the Straits to other powers. Premier Saracoglu had not had a very pleasant visit in Moscow. Well might he wonder last week if he would not soon again be a guest in Spasso House...
Cheering Bulgars pelted the advancing Russians with flowers. The three pro-German regents resigned. So did Premier Muraviev. The stranded Bulgar peace negotiators in Cairo said they were ready to listen again to Allied terms. The new premier, anti-German Kimon Georgiev, proclaimed his faith in a "free, independent, democratic and mighty Bulgaria...