Word: premier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fund, to which both Britain and France belong, was set up to place some controls over governmental currency manipulations. Despite the objections of both the Fund and London's Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Stafford Cripps, Premier Schuman's government decided that this hand had to be played alone if necessary because of the fall in exports. The squabble will not help ideas of West European unity along in the face of the worst economic crisis since 1932. But the worst blow will be dealt to the hope that the bank would replace the economic law of the jungle with...
...Princes and untouchables gathered in New Delhi to glimpse the dozing little man in a loin cloth, and to hear the latest medical bulletins. This time, however, a jarring note sounded. A small crowd of unsympathetic Hindus and Sikhs began to shout: "Let Gandhi die!" From an automobile lunged Premier Jawaharlal Nehru, who is India's Johnny-on-the-spot as Fiorello LaGuardia was Manhattan's. Cried Nehru: "How dare you say that? Kill me first!" Nehru chased the dissidents down the street. Inside, Gandhi dozed...
...Parliament is dissolved, which might happen at any time with Charles de Gaulle waiting in the wings, the constitution provides that the Assembly president shall take over as "acting Premier" until a new government is formed. That would be Radical Socialist Edouard Herriot of Lyon, reliable as an oak, who was re-elected to the presidency last week. But M. Herriot is old and ailing. If he were too ill to serve, the first vice president would take over. Therefore, reasoned the Assembly majority, Jacques Duclos must not again be first vice president...
Bulgarian Premier Georgi Dimitrov, Kremlin-anointed promoter of "people's democracies" in Eastern Europe, had a busy week...
...Should I have the power to order it," declared Belgium's Premier Paul-Henri Spaak, "I would ban any headlines . . . on international affairs bigger than one-half inch." Newspapers, the Premier complained, treat such matters "like crime and other sensational affairs...