Word: premier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Communist austerity shuttered Budapest's gambling joints, the boys in Szabadsag Ter (Liberty Square) offered outdoor odds of four to one against President Zoltan Til-dy's chances of surviving his precarious alliance with the Communists. Fourteen months ago, when he weathered the storm that whisked ex-Premier Ferenc Nagy into exile, 3,000,000 forints (about $250,000) in bets changed hands. The boys on Szabadsag Ter should have waited...
...Frame. Then Hoffman sat down to drive his points home to the men who could act on them. Britain was represented by Sir Stafford Cripps, Belgium by Premier Paul-Henri Spaak (who is also OEEC chairman), the other Marshall Plan countries by men of cabinet or ambassadorial rank. The U.S. people, Hoffman told them, expected the European nations to carry out their pledges of joint action. He asked for a coordinated, four-year master plan. Said Hoffman: "Each participating nation must face up to readjustments . . . These readjustments cannot be made along the old separatist lines." European recovery "cannot...
Luxemburg's plump, commonsensical Premier Pierre Dupong made a sensible remark about the Berlin crisis last week. Said he: "I don't want to find out if the Russians are willing to go to war. I would like to know, but I don't want to find...
...Gives the Most?" "I feel about Kashmir as one feels about a woman," says India's Premier Nehru, who comes often to sip the cold spring water in a Kashmir garden or to spin down the Jhelum River with Kashmir's Premier Sheik Abdullah (see cut). Many a tourist has shared his view, but last week the tourist flood that might have rushed to enjoy the coolness and romance of Kashmir's capital city Srinagar was dammed off by Nehru's government...
...with eastern arch-Tories. It did not work. They had ended with a lacklustre program, not liberal enough to steal votes from Mackenzie King, not conservative enough for right-wingers. Last week many Conservative bigwigs were pinning their party's main hopes on a tested Tory, big, handsome Premier George Drew of Ontario. So far, the only other contender in sight was Saskatchewan's John George Diefenbaker, Tory gadfly of Parliament...