Word: premiered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Britain's socialists had no monopoly of crisis. In France, Premier Paul Ramadier's Government was wobbling; French economy was heading toward collapse. Industry was hamstrung by coal shortages, strikes and absenteeism. With exports for the first half of 1947 $500 million less than imports, the French dollar reserve was down to $400 million. Drought had shriveled half the wheat crop. Scarce dollars must be diverted to buying food...
What most Frenchmen feared was that the day Premier Ramadier was turned out, the showdown between De Gaulle and Communism would begin. A former Resistance worker voiced the mood of many plain men last week: "Now we enjoy our food and our wine and the sunshine on the coast-as long as we have them to enjoy-and we can only hope that our children can learn enough to do better. We are finished...
Many Chinese officials believed that General Wedemeyer had spent too much of his month's inspection trip talking with Government critics. Said Premier Chang Chun last week: "There were many things General Wedemeyer did not know and did not find out." Premier Chang said that he himself had not been granted a really thorough interview with Wedemeyer...
...entrusted by King Paul to form a new Cabinet (TIME, Sept. 1). Liberal Leader Themistocles Sophoulis refused to serve under him, so Tsaldaris said he would go it alone. Henderson put his foot down, delivered what amounted to an ultimatum. Tsaldaris then stepped down to the job of Vice Premier. Sophoulis became the head of the new Cabinet. The most unsavory of the Royalists were...
Present to hear this challenge to Christian Democratic Premier De Gasperi was Luigi Longo, Italian Communism's unofficial minister of war. As 32 of his well-organized partisan brigades paraded, he remarked tersely that this was "a solemn warning to those who need...