Word: premier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Quintessence of Maladresse." When the gabble of 21 electioneering parties had died down, 427,000 voters (including 30,000 Arabs) went to the polls in Israel's first election. Premier David Ben-Gurion's Mapai (Labor Party) polled 35% of the vote, more than double the total of its nearest competitor. Closely bunched were the left-wing United Workers, which want alignment with Russia; the United Religious Front, which wants a state conforming to the Talmud; and the ultranationalist Freedom Movement, which wants a conquest of Palestine and Transjordan before peace is made with the Arabs. The Communists...
...facts is difficult to say, chiefly because there aren't any that can be used. The lack of conciliatory Russian actions in the UN is supposed to be a useful fact, but it proves very little so far as this particular issue is concerned. It does show that Premier Stalin's statement to the press was not necessarily made in good faith; but it does not show that the statement was necessarily and beyond the shadow of a doubt made in bad faith. It would have to do that to prove that the situation implied by the phrase "peace offensive...
Last week, the committee of five met in M. Herriot's salon to see whether they could get to a compromise. The French were represented by tough little ex-Premier Paul Reynaud and by vague old Leon Blum. Horse-faced Hugh Dalton, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, headed the British delegation. Dalton offered a concession: Britain would agree to a European "conference" to meet publicly (once a year for three weeks), but the delegates must still be bound by the instructions of their governments. Up from his fragile chair popped Paul Reynaud. "You would find no one willing...
...went to King Paul with a list of old names in a new arrangement, they found the monarch in a stern mood. He told them that they must form a really effective and representative government; otherwise, he would install Greece's most venerated soldier, General Alexander Papagos, as Premier. Papagos, who had driven the Italians back into Albania in 1941, would not come out of retirement unless he was given a free hand...
...result was a compromise. Papagos was in as generalissimo, free to act without interference from the politicians. Sophoulis would head the new government as titular Premier, but the work of holding it together would be entrusted to a younger deputy Premier: 74-year-old Alexander Diomedes, economist, Byzantine scholar, novice in politics. Some Athenians professed to see a portent in the fact that, on the day the new government was formed, a two-headed baby was born in Piraeus...