Word: premiers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cominform communique charged Tito and three of his Communist ministers with the deadly sins of "nationalism" and "Trotzkyism." The offending ministers specifically named were Vice Premier Edvard Kardelj, Minister for Montenegro Milovan Djilas and Interior (police) Minister Alexander Rankovic...
...Philadelphia could be as important to them as their own rulers. Maybe more so. "Whether the next U.S. President is isolationist or internationalist,"* wrote Tokyo's Asahi, "will have far more effect on the actual livelihood of the Japanese than the question of whether the next [Japanese] Premier is Shigeru Yoshida or Hitoshi Ashida...
...break the stalemate, the U.S. and Australian members of the Good Offices Committee whispered a plan of their own, providing for federation by 1949. Republican Premier Mohamed Hatta liked it. But Dutch Acting Governor General Hubertus van Mook refused to consider the plan, told U.S. Committee Member Coert du Bois that he had no business submitting it in the first place. Then the U.S.-Australian plan leaked to the press. The Dutch announced that "in view of the publication of the strictly confidential document*. . . The Netherlands delegation has requested instructions from The Netherlands government." They "discontinued" negotiations "for the time...
...Premier Antonin Zapotocky (TIME, June 21) announced plans for further purges of the army,* the courts, the schools, the libraries, and the economy ("to erase the last vestige of capitalism" and establish "harmony" with Russia). His purge of the press provoked the first open resistance the new regime had encountered. The government announced that all Socialist publications would be closed down this month when the Social Democratic Party "merges" with the Communist Party. At the plant of venerable Právo Lidu (People's Right), 55-year-old Social Democratic Party organ, 500 newspaper workers assembled in a protest...
Married. Marie Spaak, 23, slim daughter of Belgium's rotund Premier Paul-Henri Spaak; and Arthur Palliser, 26, British Foreign Office Secretary; in Saint Gilles, Belgium...