Word: premier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Premier Alcide de Gasperi, fighting for the life of his precarious Red-less Government (TIME, June 9), got a political reprieve last week. The Communists' best opportunity to kill the new Cabinet seemed to be the scheduled dissolution of the Italian Constituent Assembly this month, which would have been followed by general elections in the fall. The Communists were sure they could lick De Gasperi, or at least deflect his energies from the desperate business of government. But last week the Assembly decided to junk the schedule and to postpone general elections for at least six months. This gave...
Another new Red-less Government got a lease on life last week. Premier Paul Ramadier settled the French railroad strike, which had threatened to develop into a major crisis. The compromise settlement cost the Government some prestige and an estimated $165 million in wage boosts for the workers - which made it even harder for the Government to hold the line against inflation. But the Communists, who had used the strike as a battering ram against tenacious little Ramadier, had not managed to topple the Government. June 7, a secretary of Communist Boss Maurice Thorez told a friend: "In two weeks...
...went on to Rome for a quieter round of functions, including an audience with the Pope and a banquet with Foreign Minister Carlo Sforza. Then she would go on to France and England-where she was already getting catcalls from the press. The Socialist Party has urged French Premier Paul Ramadier to declare her unacceptable. And London's big, breezy Sunday Pictorial, which was howling at Argentine beef prices, screamed from a frontpage banner, PRESIDENT'S WIFE is NOT WELCOME. But Evita was used to brickbats; they had not stopped her before...
Invited to his party this week were Lazareff Friends Prince Peter of Greece, ex-Premier Paul Reynaud, Mistinguett, Marlene Dietrich, Jean Cocteau, Cinema Producers Marcel Pagnol and René Clair, dozens of writers, Cabinet Ministers, deputies and generals. They could toast Lazareff as one of the few journalists who had lived through, without being stained by, the venal days of France's prewar press. They also could toast a proved proposition : that journalistic honesty can pay off in France...
...Also no stranger to the front pages is Vincent Auriol. He, not Premier Ramadier, is President of France...