Word: premier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Beyrouth, Greek Premier George Papandreou, backed by Churchill, talked Stalinist leaders of the Greek underground into going Britain...
Last week the French Committee of National Liberation and the 100 earnest, arguing men who make up its Consultative Assembly formally declared themselves the Provisional Government of the French Republic. That made the slope-shouldered, big-boned man with the pursed mouth and the melancholy eyes the Provisional Premier-President of what he calls the Fourth Republic. The Committee became a Cabinet, the Assembly a sort of Chamber of Deputies-though without the power to legislate: the Assembly could only advise. The symbolic power of Gaullism had triumphed over the doubts and fears of the U.S., of Britain...
Ontario's Premier George Drew worried out loud about the impact of U.S. publications, films and radio upon Canadian life and opinion...
...this lull fooled no one, especially the Japanese. Premier Hideki Tojo last week praised the Japanese for producing "undreamed-of" quantities of ships and airplanes, then warned them that the British and Americans were becoming impatient "to end' the war in a short time." Said he: "The time to decide the destiny of our empire has come...
Cause: the second Spanish Armada, which was carrying 5,000 Spanish troops to lead a west-of-England rising against Protestant George I. The fleet had been sent by Spain's wily Premier, Cardinal Alberoni...