Word: premier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...position was a split among the Socialists, some of whom thought that Popular Republican Schuman had gone too far, that he had encroached on the workers' basic right to strike. On Sunday night the leader of the doubting Socialists, Minister of Social Affairs Daniel Mayer, called on the Premier at home...
...Mayer," said the Premier. "If the government does that, it admits that nothing can be done in France without Communist consent. It would mean the wrecking of our foreign policy. It would not only mean that I might as well go back to planting beans in Lorraine-to which I have no objection-but also that the recovery of France would be indefinitely postponed...
...Refugees, to keep him quiet. But he began urging refugees to demand division of the land, including estates of Moslem landlords, who are among Jinnah's chief backers. One procession of refugees, parading through Lahore, burst into the kitchen of the fat, well-fed Khan of Momdot, Premier of West Punjab and a Jinnah man. Outraged at the contrast between his food and the four thin cha-pattis (wheat pancakes) issued to each of them each day, the demonstrators paraded the Khan's lunch through the streets...
Italy's embattled Premier Alcide de Gasperi retired to bed for a spell with arthritis...
...most spectacular move in a drastic governmental program to end Italy's wild inflation. The author and guiding head of the plan is famed Economist Luigi Einaudi, 73, a frail, dry man who sometimes sounds as dull as the retired professor that he is. But as Vice Premier, Minister of the Budget and Governor of the Bank of Italy, he has put an unprofessorial wallop into his actions. Although he is one of Italy's outstanding apostles of unfettered free enterprise, Einaudi has not hesitated to fight inflation with hard-handed governmental control where he thought...