Word: premier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last March India's Premier Jawaharlal Nehru said: "Strong winds are blowing all over Asia. Let us not be afraid of them but rather welcome them, for only with them can we build the new Asia of our dreams." Last week, in the lands where more than half the human race lives, the winds bore the taint of death...
...race against a "monstrous catastrophe" (the phrase was Premier Paul Ramadier's) began last week in Paris. The air in the Grande Salle a Manger du Ministre (which has eight huge chandeliers and only four windows) was bad; but the diplomatic atmosphere was better than at any international conference since the war's end. The delegates seemed permeated with the realization that they had to move fast to turn the "Marshall approach" into a plan for Europe; if they did not, the price of peace would go up and the hope of peace would go down (see WHAT...
...Molotov Plan. Nine nations-the U.S.S.R., Czechoslovakia, Poland, Yugoslavia, Rumania, Bulgaria, Hungary, Finland and Albania-had declined invitations to the conference. It was a hard decision for the trade-hungry Czechs; their Communist Premier Klement Gottwald had flown to Moscow, telephoned to the Cabinet at Prague the night the decision was made. "What else could we do?" said a non-Communist official in Prague. For being good, the Czechs got another Russian treaty and a promise of 200,000 tons of wheat...
Tetsu Katayama, Japan's overworked Premier, was ordered by his doctors to see if rest wouldn't help that "nervous lump" on his head...
...Hotel reception glittering with papal titles, and a dazzling performance of A'ïda under the stars in the ancient Baths of Caracalla. Eva, in black flowered silk with a white fox cape, her hair, ear lobes and shapely neck glittering with diamonds, arrived on the arm of Premier de Gasperi just in time to delay the second act a full half-hour. Some of the paying guests were furious, but the Latin American diplomats, who had the best seats, cheered wildly...