Word: premiered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After two great wars, two disillusioning peaces, tough old Field Marshal Jan Christian Smuts, South Africa's ex-Premier, faced his 80th year. Said Smuts...
...Indonesia last week (see below), that was not impossible; but it would take some doing. India's Prime Minister Pandit Nehru last week called for a conference of 14 Asiatic and Middle Eastern nations to discuss ways & means of helping Indonesia's republicans. Burma's ex-Premier Ba Maw announced that a Burmese expeditionary force (including 100 women) would leave shortly for Indonesia to fight the Dutch. An official spokesman, however, threw cold water on that idea. Said he: "We have our own lawlessness to stamp...
...peace bid to the Communists. How could Chiang Kai-shek hold out when his Northwest commander, Chang Chih-chung, had counseled another effort to negotiate? When the commander of the armies defending Nanking, sturdy Pai Chung-hsi, had wired him to step aside? Even his sworn brother, ex-Premier Chang Chun, had urged him to "retire into the clouds" and let others less disagreeable to the enemy make overtures for peace. Vice President Li Tsung-jen was ready to propose a cease-fire and immediate peace talks...
...young man lounging in the lobby of Cairo's Ministry of Interior was wearing the uniform of a police first lieutenant, but he looked more like a student. A few minutes before 10 a.m. he glanced up. Across the lobby came Egypt's 60-year-old Premier, Mahmoud Fahmy El Nokrashy Pasha. As he approached the elevators, the young man saluted. Then he whipped out a revolver and fired five bullets into the Premier's body, killing...
...Ahmed killed the Premier? He explained: "Because he caused Egypt to lose the Sudan, surrendered Palestine to the Jews, and dissolved the Moslem Brotherhood . . . the only organization fighting for Islam in the past 20 years...