Word: premiered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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History in the Making. Meanwhile, in Tel Aviv, Israel's Premier David Ben-Gurion stepped up colonization schedules for the Jerusalem corridor and the Negeb, planned to settle 5,000 to 10,000 Jews in the southern desert within the next three years. Within two months, he announced, several hundred Jewish pioneers would move into Beersheba to make it a Jewish town. He also announced that Israeli representatives were holding secret talks with leaders of two Arab nations (probably Lebanon and Egypt...
...Franklin Roosevelt said to Poland's Premier Stanislaw Mikolajczyk: "But of one thing I am certain. Stalin is not an imperialist." Mikolajczyk learned differently, and he told about it last week in his book, The Rape of Poland (Whittlesey; $4). The rough blocks of his story the world has known about: his battle against the Teheran deal in which Roosevelt and Churchill let Stalin take eastern Poland; his postwar struggle to survive as a leader of a coalition government that included Communists, and his final flight to the West...
...been the wartime Premier of Japan; before that he was commander of the Japanese army in Manchuria, then Vice Minister of War and Minister of War. His admiring colleagues had called him The Razor. In the hour of Japan's defeat, he had tried, and ignominiously failed, to take his own life. During the trial he had shrewdly defended himself and his country. Last week, in his faded army jacket and horn-rimmed spectacles, he did not look like the toothy, maniacal symbol of Japanese frightfulness that U.S. cartoonists had made of him after Pearl Harbor...
...Kick In the Teeth. Another satellite ex-Premier who had to flee, Ferenc Nagy (pronounced Nod-ye) of Hungary, told his story last week in The Struggle Behind the Iron Curtain (Macmillan; $6). He, too, paints a picture of Stalin; this one, Stalin the Genial Conciliator...
...Dewey had lost the U.S. elections. At 40 to the dollar, the gold yuan had sunk in two weeks to a tenth of its original value. A wave of defeatism swept Nationalist China. Frail Wong Wen-hao, a geologist in private life, tried three times to resign as Premier, finally agreed to hang on until Chiang Kai-shek could find a successor...