Word: premiered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Paris last week, members of the Senate Appropriations Committee, having doggedly toured the neat Norman farm country and held long conferences with Premier Paul Ramadier and Foreign Minister Georges Bidault, relaxed at a party given by U.S. Ambassador Jefferson Caffery. Over cocktails, one Senator's wife asked an English-speaking Frenchman...
...overture to Sunday's battle was fierce. A Communist-decreed national maritime walkout tied up all French ports for 48 hours; a transport strike in Paris paralyzed the Métro. As Premier Paul Ramadier's Government tried to break the strike, Paris' gentle autumn air grew heavy with menace. Armed, steel-helmeted guards stood outside barricaded subway entrances and bus depots. The Cocos (Paris argot for Communists) accused the Socialists of fomenting the strike, then absurdly belabored the Government for strikebreaking. (After De Gaulle's victory, the Communists prepared to call off the strike...
From overhead, Christian Democratic planes showered leaflets. At one meeting, thousands of clenched fists shook angrily at the dark sky; men picked up the fluttering leaflets and, without a glance at their words, lighted them with matches-a hundred little torches blazing in the gloom. The Church helped Premier Alcide de Gasperi's Christian Democrats as never before. Said one priest from the pulpit: "He who fails to vote commits a most grievous sin. Catholics must see that Christ's cross and not the hammer & sickle rises above the Campanile of Capitol Hill...
Henceforth, Greek Communists would not be troubled by such questions. Last week, aging Liberal Premier Themistocles Sophoulis, who had tried to get along with the Communists (TIME, Oct. 20), finally lost his liberal patience. His police closed down Greece's top Communist papers. Said he: the Government must take security measures when the press supports the guerrillas "and incites the people to take to the mountains...
Stuff & Nonsense? Jerusalem's ex-Mufti, Haj Amin el-Husseini, dropped in on the conference unexpectedly, and officially uninvited. He had simply flown up from Cairo in a chartered plane, bringing his armed guards along. One morning while Premier al-Sulh was still shaving, the Mufti turned up at his house. Told that the Mufti was in his garden, the Premier snorted unbelievingly: "Stuff and nonsense." But there he was. Lebanon tightened up security measures accordingly, turned back Jewish travelers at the frontier. The Mufti was back in the limelight of gestures and intrigue. He sent a cryptic message...