Word: premier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that Premier Paul-Henri Spaak felt free to answer was: "During the war we put at the disposal of the Allies all our uranuim. This agreement is still operating. It will be revised according to the decision to be taken...
Russia had placed an iron mop in the hands of Ana Pauker, its No. 1 Rumanian Communist, and Ana was busy mopping up. A fortnight ago, the leaders of the liberal National Peasant Party had been arrested (TIME, July 28). Aging (74) ex-Premier Juliu Maniu was in Malmaison Prison. Jon Mihalache had been moved to the cellar of the Ministry of Interior. Last week a rubber-stamp parliament outlawed the National Peasant Party, Rumania's majority party (70% of voters...
High point of the debate came when aged (87) ex-Premier Orlando charged the Government with "a lust for servitude," thus throwing the sweltering chamber into screaming uproar. Meanwhile, Neo-Fascist Emilio Patrissi and Deputy Paolo Treves, a Saragattian Socialist, after a fistfight in the corridor, scheduled a duel the next day. Said Premier Alcide de Gasperi: "What counts most is that Italy gives a clear, honest and unreserved demonstration to walk the path of sacrifice toward a new dignity...
...spry, 69-year-old, Mrs. Flora MacLeod, 28th chieftain of the MacLeod clan, who had come all the way from Scotland's Isle of Skye for the doings. Dressed in tribal tartan, the MacLeod of MacLeods watched the clansmen in sword dances, Highland flings. With another kilted chieftain, Premier Angus L. Macdonald, she listened to speeches in Gaelic and stamped time to shrill renditions (including Mrs. MacLeod's March, written especially for the occasion) by the Cape Breton Highlander's Pipe Band. Said she: "It is wonderful to be in a place as Scottish as Cape Breton...
Married. Josef Cyrankiewicz, 36, bullet-headed, pro-Communist Polish Premier; and blonde, husky-voiced Nina Andrycz, thirtyish, who made her first big hit in The Constant Nymph and is now Warsaw's top leading lady; he for the second time, she for the first; in Warsaw...