Word: premier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nine times in his eight months in office Premier Robert Schuman, the lean, leaning tower of French politics, had tottered on the brink of failure. Nine times he survived a vote of confidence by margins as small as 33, 23 and 16 Assembly votes...
...against low wages. One of Italy's most famous surgeons. Dr. Pietro Valdoni. worked over Togliatti for 2½ hours while Signorina Iotti and Togliatti's wife, white-haired Rita Montagna, stood in the doorway. Togliatti's Socialist ally, Pietro Nenni. wandered aimlessly about the corridors. Premier Alcide de Gasperi, his face greyer than usual, hurried to the Policlinico. "This," he said grimly as he left, "is the worst possible thing that could have happened...
...Parliament Red deputies, screaming invective, blamed the government for complicity in the attack on Togliatti. But Premier de Gasperi and his tough little Interior Minister, Mario Scelba, stood their ground. Said Scelba (who, like Assassin Pallante, is a Sicilian): "It becomes the state's duty to use the whole of its force, which is considerable and can be crushing, to guarantee the liberty of all citizens...
Back to Work. To the government's firmness was added the fact that most Italians simply did not believe that De Gasperi's government was implicated in Pallante's stupid crime. In a message from Moscow, where the protection of bigwigs is a highly developed science, Premier Stalin rebuked his Italian satraps for not taking better care of Togliatti. Crestfallen, they responded with an article in L'Unitá promising to purge themselves of "the timid, the opportunists, the dishonest and the provocateurs." They also disclosed that party membership had dropped...
Gardiner can expect most of Saskatchewan's no, some of British Columbia's 93, and Alberta's 97. He cannot count on Manitoba's 97, which should be solid for Manitoba's own Premier Stuart Garson (said to be Mackenzie King's choice for leader a few years hence). Nor can Gardiner count on the Maritime provinces' 186 votes, which are now destined for a favorite son, Premier Angus Macdonald...