Word: premier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like Britain's, France's Socialist Government is dedicated to an economy planned from womb to tomb. Last week, in a five-page decree to France's morticians, Premier Paul Ramadier and Interior Minister Edouard Depreux offered a formula fixing the price for coffin-carrying in a two-horse hearse...
...Parliament, Socialist Leader Pietro Nenni, who often acts as a Communist cat's-paw, called for a vote of no-confidence in the Government of Premier Alcide de Gasperi. The Communists were preparing to re-enter the Government, where their disruptive power at this critical time would be greatly increased. The vote was postponed, but for Premier de Gasperi it was a close shave...
...revolution." In Florence, city employees were on strike, in Messina the printers walked out. In Catanzaro it was the building workers, and in the Venetian province the railway and streetcar workers. In Terni, demonstrating workers carried posters denouncing the Pope as a "starver of the poor," and suggesting that Premier de Gasperi be hanged. Most serious of all was the battle of the fields: almost 1,000,000 agricultural laborers in the Po Valley were on strike, endangering Italy's desperately needed rice crop. In the cities, food rations were promptly reduced...
...There are war clouds on the horizon today because a country beyond the ocean, capitalistic United States of America, aims at the imposition of its own capitalistic way of life on the rest of the world. . . . Here in Italy we have a Premier who worships dollars as much as he worships the Eucharist...
...currently doing quite well for itself behind the scenes of the Indonesian Republican Government. But Tan Malaka had an ideological falling out with official Communism and became a Trotskyite. Tan Malaka also had a falling out with his great friend President Soekarno, who objected to a plot to kidnap Premier Sjahrir last year. Soekarno jailed Tan Malaka, and Comrade Alimin became Indonesia's No. 1 Communist...