Word: premier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Truman Doctrine, moved decisively. As the Communists, backed by their brethren from Moscow, took over Hungary's Government (see INTERNATIONAL), Secretary of State George Marshall promptly suspended the unused half of a whopping $30 million credit to Hungary. Then he gave cheer and congratulation to Italy's Premier Alcide de Gasperi, who had screwed up his courage to form a new government without benefit of Italian Communists...
...Wonderful." Italy's Premier Alcide de Gasperi had resigned from the coalition Cabinet, formed a Cabinet without the left, chiefly because U.S. policy had given him the courage of his convictions, i.e., that a democrat has no business collaborating with Communists. The U.S. put a premium on formation of a non-Communist Cabinet (by holding out the prospect of a commerce and friendship treaty, thawing Italian assets...
...hotel window. The mild, wistful-eyed man who had tried to get along with everybody (including the Communists) had with him his timid little wife and his beautiful young daughter, Juliette. But Ferenc Nagy (pronounced Nodge) was uneasy: he was not enjoying his Swiss vacation from his duties as Premier of Hungary...
...accept this sinister invitation. He called Budapest to see what terms he could make with the Communists. They told him they would let his four-year-old son, Laszlo, join him in exile. Nagy went around to the Hungarian legation and announced that he would resign as Premier as soon as Laszlo arrived. Then he went back to the hotel, disconnected his phone and went to bed. Said a fellow countryman: "I'll bet Nagy was the only Hungarian in Bern who slept that night...
...world, the mortgage issue is far from academic for hundreds of submarginal wheat farmers along Saskatchewan's western border. To keep these uneconomic producers from going to the wall, the province will probably pass a cumbersome moratorium bill. On the broad issue of the province's powers, Premier Douglas promised to appeal the Ottawa court's decision to the Privy Council in London...