Word: premier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Leopold had just received a visit from Belgian Premier Gaston Eyskens. Together they had worked out an important political agreement. Eyskens would ask Parliament this week to hold a "popular consultation" on whether or not the King should return. If Leopold received less than 55% of the referendum votes, he would abdicate. He did not say what he would do if he got more than 55%. But it was plain that he would need a majority well over 55% before Parliament would actually agree to his return...
...climate than it has ever known before. In 1946 he ordered the republic's first multi-party elections. Last week he held his first press conference. The most important opposition to the government's Republican People's Party (RPP) is the Democratic Party, led by onetime Premier Celal Bayar, an old rival of Inonii. There have been frequent suppressions of the press, but newspapers still scream against the government (one law prohibits "insults" to the President or Parliament, but under it only four offenders have been sentenced in the past three years...
Acting President Li Tsung-jen and Premier Yen Hsi-shan flew to Chungking, 700 miles northwest on a Yangtze cliffside, were greeted there by thousands of bright "Welcome" flags. But the famed capital of Free China in the war against the Japanese seemed as dispirited as the rest of non-Communist China. It had survived seven years of blockade by the Japanese. Now it would be an isolated capital again, with distance and not much else to guard it from the oncoming Reds...
...always cherished a sweeping vision of India in the vanguard of an awakened Asia. He long has been in correspondence with other Asiatic leaders. He met Mohamed Hatta, Indonesia's Premier, at an anti-imperialist rally in Brussels 20 years ago, has been writing to him ever since. He is a close friend and backer of Burma's Premier Thakin...
...Sunday at Ueno Zoo, starchy Premier Shigeru Yoshida made his bid for peace by gingerly thrusting a bunch of bananas at India's good-will ambassador, an elephant presented to Japan by India's Prime Minister Nehru...