Word: premier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...honor the men who had made the victory possible. Spread in massive ranks across the old town square stood thousands of policemen and militiamen, agents of the force which hoped to celebrate Police Day the world over. Before them, amid Prague's grey and ancient statuary, sat Communist Premier Klement Gottwald, surrounded by his new cabinet, a smug, squat figure of triumph...
...Communists paraded, crying: "Away with reaction!" Anti-Communists paraded, crying: "We will uphold party democracy! London is calling at 9 o'clock!" (This was a bitter reference to the days of Nazi occupation, when BBC broadcasts brought Czechoslovakia's only hope of freedom.) Mass arrests continued. Premier Gottwald's "action committees" seized most factories not yet nationalized; they occupied all the ministries not yet in charge of Communists. President Benes wrote a letter to the Central Committee of the Czech Communist party: "I have been thinking ... I am trying to see clearly. ... I feel the people...
...this time the magnet of politics held the anti-Dev chips together. The victors elected unassuming 56-year-old John Aloysius Costello, K.C., Fine Gael frontbencher, as Eire's new Premier. To the comfort of tradition, Mr. Costello (accent on first syllable) was a devout Roman Catholic and family man (five children...
...Premier's Cabinet, like that of outgoing Premier Tetsu Katayama ("TIME, Feb. 23), would be formed from a shaky coalition of Democrats, Socialists and the small People's Cooperative Party. The prospects for Ashida were not encouraging, but the 60-year-old former diplomat throught he could succeed where Katayama had failed. Said he: "I will do my utmost...
Orders for the raid had come directly from Premier Maurice Duplessis, who (as Attorney General) is both executor and sponsor of the 1937 padlock law banning the use of premises for disseminating Communist propaganda "by any means whatsoever." In the 32 months before he went out of office in November 1939, Duplessis used the law eleven times. Until last week, he had not used it once since his return to power in August 1944. Now, with provincial elections just around the corner, the law seemed just the ticket for the anti-Red campaign which is supposed to bring in many...