Word: premier
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...deputy chief of staff of the 15th Army Group, and commanding general of the U.S. contingent of that international force in Italy, he played a role in the negotiations with Premier Pietro Badoglio that led to Italy's capitulation in 1943. Later, dressed as a civilian (with a dachshund in tow), he managed the Allied discussions in Switzerland that preceded the German High Command's surrender in Italy and Southern Austria...
Brother screamed at Arab brother last week in a way that suggested that Arab brotherhood is a sometime thing. In Cairo, President Nasser's marchers swung dead rats and dogs from mock gallows to show their hate for Premier Kassem and his Iraqi Communist allies. In Baghdad, Kassem supporters plastered the city with portraits of President Nasser's grinning countenance superimposed on pictures of donkeys, hyenas and dancing girls...
...last January, he had warned his government that unless it began giving the Congo democracy and some sort of independence, it would face "catastrophe" and lose the colony altogether. When he flew into Léopoldville last week, he got the kind of ugly welcome that France's Premier Guy Mollet once got in Algiers. Angry white settlers shut up their shops in protest, flew flags of mourning, chalked up slogans saying GO HOME, TRAITOR, and SNUL (Flemish for simpleton). Had the irate settlers had any suspicion what energetic little Maurice Van Hemelrijck was about to do. their slogans...
...fanatic leader of the ultranationalist Abako organization, had been falsely arrested for fomenting them. He ordered Kasavubu and two other Abako leaders released. Then he had the three men bundled onto a military plane loaded with paratroopers headed home on furlough. When the plane landed in Brussels, everyone from Premier Gaston Eyskens on down was astounded. Van Hemelrijck had done some daring things in his time, but no one had ever expected him to bring home in freedom the very person the press had been calling the most dangerous man in the Congo...
...first his colleagues in the Cabinet bitterly attacked Van Hemelrijck for his lone-wolf gamble, but since at this delicate moment in Congo affairs Belgium does not wish to appear divided, he got their grudging approval. When a Member of Parliament asked the Premier whether Van Hemelrijck had given advance notice to the Cabinet, Eyskens answered: "No, but the minister has such heavy responsibilities that he must be free to make quick decisions...