Word: premier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...person whose rise to fame is based on the essential principle that government by the people must be based on law and order ... I nominate Robert Schuman, French Premier, as Man of the Year...
...Hungarian government of Premier Lajos Dinnyes was taking no chances with the untoward. Neither were Tito's security boys. Hungary's friend made a formal entry by private train-but not until another train, crowded with soldiers, had tested the track. Resplendently panoplied, Tito strode into the Parliament building and marched to the elevator. Then he stopped short, shook his head and gestured with one hand. Obediently, a functionary rode the elevator to the top, descended again in a trial run. (The elevator worked for Tito, too, but stalled on the next trip, trapping President of the Republic...
...Ideal of Conspiracy." Quietly the Communists had mobilized buses and trucks all over Italy. Before the government of Christian Democrat Premier Alcide de Gasperi quite knew what was up, thousands of partisans (mostly Communist) had converged on the capital. People who could remember 1922 thought that it made Mussolini's march on Rome look like a clumsy straggle of Boy Scouts...
...announced that, although the last U.S. troops in Italy were embarking for home, the U.S. would consider "appropriate" measures if Italy's freedom were threatened "directly or indirectly." In Rome, Giuseppe Saragat, overcoming a deep reluctance, brought his right-wing Socialists into the government and became a vice-premier. De Gasperi would now have a comfortable Assembly majority for the first time. The Communists and the left-wing Nenni Socialists had been isolated...
...Assembly passed Premier Schuman's strike-control bill (TIME, Dec. 8). At week's end nearly 1,000 had been arrested on sabotage charges. Minister of Interior Jules Moch, a tall, dark, Communist-hating Socialist, told the Assembly that he had authorized police and troops to fire on rioters if necessary. Moch also said that newly mobilized reservists would be ready by Wednesday of this week, and that, thereafter, "in every mine and in every factory where men want to work . . . they will be free...