Word: premier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...M.R.P. (Popular Republicans), 61-year-old Finance Minister Robert Schuman. M. Schuman roundly denounced the Communists and no one else. Consequently no one voted against him but the "Cocos" and a few mavericks. Py a vote of 412 to 184, Robert Schuman became France's new Premier...
...some polling places children presented the proxies of their parents, servants those of their masters. Premier Chang Chun himself had to scold the curious who pressed around to watch him write his choice: "This isn't right. We must vote in secret." But, as the Premier added, it was "the first time." Chinese hoped for improvement. Said scholarly, bespectacled Tseng Chi, head of the Chinese Youth Party: "Perhaps six years from now, at the next general election, we'll know more...
...have not formally opened their fifth battle, against their own present allies, the Socialists. But both parties know it will come. One Socialist M.P. told me: "We provide nearly all the government's support; the Communists have all the power." The Socialists do have six cabinet ministers, including Premier Joseph Cyrankiewicz. But the Communists manage the ministries that matter. They control the army, the secret police, education, military courts (where the significant trials are held), foreign trade, and Poland's entire economic life...
Last week, French Premier Paul Ramadier stared long and hard at the stiff political guarantees attached to U. S. economic aid, turned around, ruefully contemplated a starving nation pockmarked by 36,000 Communist cells, and promptly resigned. His government had failed in every political and economic crisis. France was on the verge of a civil war that would preclude any American aid. Ramadier's successor, ex-finance minister Robert Schuman, is charged with an immense task--that of tramping Communism under a vigorous and potent democracy. His success or failure might well set the future pattern of current American plans...
Everyone seemed to like the P.M. Said a waiter who served him: "I've seen 25 Belgian premiers come & go in the last 25 years, and I was curious to see from close by what a permanent premier looks like." He thought he had fathomed the secret of Mr. King's success: "He knows perfectly when to laugh, and especially not to laugh while others are laughing...