Word: premiers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Inside Sofia's National Theater, 1,000 delegates rhythmically clapped their hands and set up a monotone chant, "Dimitrov, Stalin, Dimitrov, Sta-lin." Led by Premier Georgi Dimitrov, Bulgarian Communist bigwigs and visitors from 18 foreign Communist parties strode up to the stage. The first congress since 1922 of the Bulgarian Communist Party was called to order. By week's end, it had mapped out a program to fit the line from a Communist Youth song: "In five years, the moon will look down and will not recognize Bulgaria...
China's new Premier, Sun Fo, stepped gingerly from a shiny black Packard at the entrance to Nanking's green-tiled Executive Yuan one morning last week. Leaning on a cane to take the weight off his left leg, from which a two-pound tumor had recently been removed, he limped up three flights of stairs to an unheated conference room,'where his cabinet waited formally to assume office...
Twenty-two ministers, bundled in overcoats, sat at a long table, posed briefly for photographers. The Premier was flanked by two of his "policymaking" ministers without portfolio-swarthy ex-Premier Chang Chun and puckish General Chang Chih-chung, both outspoken advocates of peace (and presumably coalition) with the Communists. Temporarily absent were two other policymakers-Sun's predecessor, Geologist Wong Wen-hao, and Conservative Chen Li-fu, chief whipping boy of Communist propagandists...
...government's main task," he said, "must be to increase its strength militarily and administratively . . . If we can't fight, we can't talk about peace. The nation will have no chance to survive." The Premier seemed to be saying that Nationalist China was ready for conditional peace, but was determined to struggle on as long as possible against unconditional surrender...
Died. Hideki Tojo, 64, Japan's Premier at the time of Pearl Harbor; by hanging; in Tokyo (see INTERNATIONAL...