Word: premier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sixty-four hours away from Chungking, the big plane circled, set its wheels down on the Washington airport. A few moments later, out stepped China's Vice Premier, Finance Minister, chairman of the board of the Bank of China, president of the boards of Yenching University, Cheeloo University, Oberlin in China, the Chinese Industrial Cooperatives, the Confucius Society, and the Public Finance Association-all in the rotund, meditative person of H. H. ("Daddy") Kung...
...there was enough truth in them to hurt. Quebec City's L'Action Catholique, the organ of powerful Cardinal J. M. Rodrigue Villeneuve, called Bouchard a "vile man" and a traitor to his people. The Cardinal himself said: "I must publicly disapprove. . . ." The Liberal Party's Premier Adélard Godbout, from whose Cabinet Bouchard had gone to the Senate, was sorely embarrassed. In Ottawa, a French Canadian member of Mackenzie King's Liberal Government tried to minimize the whole affair. Said able, cool Louis Stephen St. Laurent, Minister of Justice: ". . . a group of from...
...Premier Godbout flew to Ottawa, talked to Liberal chieftains, as quickly flew back to Quebec City. He summoned his Cabinet, then announced that Bouchard had been fired from a lush job to which Godbout had appointed him only two months ago. The job: the $18,000-a-year chairmanship of Quebec's Hydro Commission, which recently took over one of the biggest private power companies in Canada...
...door of No. 10 Downing Street swung open for Polish Premier Stanislaw Mikolajczyk. Around a large table in the Cabinet Room he sat with Prime Minister Winston Churchil, Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, others. For an hour he talked of his Washington visit, his five cordial meetings with President Roosevelt. The conference ended in an air of optimism, subdued but real. The men at this meeting really believed that the Polish-Russian feud might soon be ended...
Italy's new Premier, gentle Ivanoe Bonomi, got a rough ultimatum from London: put ex-Premier Marshal Pietro Badoglio back in the Cabinet, or else. For Italy's anti-Fascist politicians, proud of their "pure-of-Fascism" Government, it was a grievous blow...