Word: premier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...muggy heat of emotions and premature summer weather one man remained crisp and cool. Having weathered other bitter crises, France's Premier Robert Schuman was quietly awaiting his next test: the summing up at the end of the debate this week, and the Assembly's vote. Bidault was feeling the temperature more than his chief was. When he had finished his halting defense of the London agreement, the Foreign Minister walked slowly from the rostrum and took his seat on the government bench. He was sweating, but he muttered to Robert Schuman: "J'ai froid...
...Rash. When De Gasperi outlined the points of his new government's program in the Chamber of Deputies, Communist deputies shrilled a dissenting antiphon. The Premier said that he would maintain law & order; they shouted: "How many innocent workers have been murdered? " De Gasperi pledged cooperation with ERP; the Communists screamed "Imperialism...
...eyed, scholarly Giuseppe Saragat, who would try to see that those promises were carried out. His "Party of the Little Green Peas"* had won nearly half of Italy's four million Socialist voters from Communist Collaborator Pietro Nenni. Saragat was in the new cabinet as Vice Premier and Minister of Mercantile Marine...
...have entered the cabinet. Our task is to give him all possible support, to push and suggest that which will benefit the working classes." Of Communists, Saragat has said: "Nothing separates us-except a great abyss." But his alliance with De Gasperi was an uneasy one. Said the Premier recently of his colleague: "Saragat sometimes seems to hear the call of the wild...
...Rumania and Princess Anne of Bourbon-Parma flew down to Athens from Geneva to get it done in private. Announced the Royal Palace: Roman Catholic Anne would positively marry Greek Orthodox Michael this week in the Greek Orthodox Church. Sole witnesses to be present: the royal families, the Greek Premier, and the Foreign Minister and his wife...