Word: premiered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Premier Ramadier: "The years are too short for humanity to have been able yet to take a decisive step toward happiness...
Ontario's Premier George Drew, who had made a quick manpower-shopping tour of England to ease his province's labor shortage (TIME, May 26), solved his biggest problem of all last week. He found a way to get the British workers to Canada. Premier Drew contracted with Transocean Air Lines (headquarters: Oakland, Calif.) to fly 7,000 of them over at the rate of 80 a day in five chartered DC-4s, beginning in about a month...
...motorcycle escort with whistles blowing, he and a carful of mild, bespectacled Foreign Office experts drove to the British Embassy on the Rue du Faubourg St. Honoré. For three hours Bevin and British Ambassador Duff-Cooper sat in low armchairs overlooking the Embassy gardens, comparing notes. Then Premier Paul Ramadier and dapper, London-tailored Foreign Minister Georges Bidault arrived with their experts. Eleven French and eleven Britons got their heads together over the veal,* adjourned to the garden veranda later for whiskey, brandy, and more happy talk...
...unswept, musty cafe, I sat discussing the meeting with the three anti-Communist members of Parliament who were scheduled to speak that evening. One of them, tall, hawk-nosed Vince Nagy, former Minister of Interior in the Károlyi Government after World War I (no kin to exiled Premier Ferenc Nagy), said: "A few days ago when [Dezsö] Sulyok, head of our party, said in Parliament there was no freedom of speech in Hungary today, the Communists called him a liar...
Instead of making a united stand against Communist domination or refusing to take office as long as the Red Army dictated government policies, they allowed themselves to be cut down one by one. President Zoltan Tildy, for instance, hung on even after Premier Ferenc Nagy was exiled in a coup that combined ideology with kidnapping (TIME, June 9). Tildy's reward was that he was called up next...