Word: premiered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...edge of bankruptcy by his lavish program of public works, had worked night and day to compile his volatile guest list. When the conference began in Florence's 600-year-old Palazzo Vecchio. just about everyone invited was there, including eleven ambassadors. Even Italy's Premier Amintore Fanfani and President Giovanni Gronchi agreed to show up to dramatize Italy's self-appointed role in the Mediterranean as a bridge between the Arabs and the West. In the opening address, the chairman of the conference, Crown Prince Moulay Hassan of Morocco, spoke "from my heart" of his hope...
...lecture, entitled "France's Fifth Republic," Hoffmann, a Frenchman himself, supported the policies of Premier Charles De Gaulle concerning French policy toward Algeria. Hoffmann favored a postponement of a political solution while pushing ahead with a program of "economic and social recognition for the honor of mankind" in the area...
Hoffmann also pointed out that the weak Fourth Republic, doomed since 1954, will be replaced by the Fifth Republic, under which the President, almost certain to be Premier De Gaulle, will be given the power to act as arbitrator among the various organs of government and as a unifying force in the crumbling French empire...
...Conakry to serenade the man who had just brought them independence. Alone among the territories of French West Africa, Guinea (pop. 2,500,000) had voted no to the new French constitution. But the young man responsible was hardly in a mood for jubilation. At a brief ceremony, Premier Sékou Touré, 36, took over as chief of government, then faced the outsized task of setting up a government for a new nation that had not even taken the time to think up a flag or an anthem. "This," said Touré glumly as he banned all public...
...about to). The blacks, about 1,100,000 strong, far outnumber Togoland's 2,000-odd Europeans. A former German protectorate, Togoland has, since 1922, been run by the French, first under a League of Nations mandate and then under a U.N. trusteeship. Its hottest politician is Premier Sylvanus Olympic, whose family once were slaves in Brazil...