Word: premiered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...driving China into Russia's arms. Said Vice President Dr. Sun Fo, son of the late great Sun Yatsen, in an interview last week: "The results of Wedemeyer's report. . . will tell China whether it would be better for her to side with the U.S. or Russia." Premier Chang Chun strongly implied that China would side with Russia in demanding a hard peace for Japan...
Said President Chiang Kai-shek last fortnight: "The mistake most of our comrades make is that they show too much tendency to rely upon foreign help. . . . Those who have energy must give energy; those who have money must give money." Ex-Premier T. V. Soong, one of China's wealthiest men and the President's brother-in-law, responded promptly...
...heels of this news came the announcement that T.V., absent from public life since his resignation as Premier last spring (TIME, March 10), was back in harness. It was a time when China needed all the able leaders she could find. T.V.'s new job: Governor of his native Kwangtung Province. There, he would be able to get some first-hand experience in governing a province-which might prove quite a job, since it has been reported that there is a separatist movement in Kwangtung. He also might find time to squelch smuggling...
Itallan Communists hope to eject premier do Gasperl's Christian Democratic government today by forcing a no-confidence vote in the constituent assembly...
...Premier Hideki Tojo, still on trial as a war criminal, got a rather wistful new name, now that he had junked Shintoism for Buddhism. The name, to be chiseled on his tombstone: Eishoin Shakuji Komyoro Koji. Approximate English translation: "By Buddha's grace, all sins committed while living are absolved...