Word: premier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Poles were laughing at such a story told on Wladyslaw Gomulka. Poland's Communist Vice Premier arrived in Katowice, capital of Upper Silesia, to make a speech. He ordered General Alexander Zawadzki, governor of the conquered area, to round up 50,000 people for the meeting. As the day wore on, Gomulka's demands got bigger. He demanded 100,000 people to listen to him, then 150,000, then 200,000. The population of Katowice is only 150,000. But a crowd of 200,000 turned out for the speech...
...Socialist Premier Paul Ramadier called his precarious coalition Cabinet into an emergency session in the ornate Hotel Matignon. The five Communist ministers sat grim and silent. Thorez intently studied the gilt cherubs on the ceiling. Said Ramadier: "I ask you not to reverse a policy which is the right one for the nation...
...wide margin (360 for, 186 against, 63 abstentions). This was the obvious moment for the Communists to resign. They did not budge. Cried Ramadier: "You cannot enjoy the benefits of being in the opposition and stay in the Government at the same time -not while I am Premier." The Communists left it up to Ramadier to fire them...
Corpses & Clippings. The wave of dis illusioned Americans broke on a foreign shore that was wholly receptive to their discontent. In 1924, at the death of France's premier novelist, Anatole France, members of the new Surrealist movement had shown their antipathy to the old literary regime by issuing a raucous manifesto entitled Did You Ever Slap A Corpse? At the same time, followers of the deliberately infantile Dada movement were exhibiting "paintings" that showed a decisive break with the old tradition-being composed chiefly of newspaper clippings and shoelaces...
...Chinese Premier Chang Chun had two messages to send last week: one for the U.S., one for China. The day after his inauguration, he reported at 9 a.m. to his new office in the green-roofed Executive Yuan building, and after recalling his last year's trip to New York (for medical treatment), sent this message...