Word: premiership
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pinay did not desert. He summoned the moderates to a meeting, told them bluntly that he would not accept the premiership if Faure was brought down. To reporters he snapped: "I remain with Edgar. To hell with all the others...
From the Deathbed. Three times Papagos refused the premiership, then in 1951, disgusted at King Paul's political bungling, he resigned his command job. A bunch of top army officers surrounded the royal palace, occupied all government offices and invited him to take over. Papagos brusquely disowned them. The same year he formed his Greek Rally party, began fighting the democratic way ("De Gaulle wants to change the French constitution with more power for the executive. My purpose is to defend our constitution against all trespassers"). In the 1952 election the Greek Rally swept the polls. After having...
...with 8,001,750 votes. But the Communists were in fourth place, while the strictly anti-Communist Moslem parties, the Masjumi and the Moslem Teachers, had enough between them to suggest a slight majority for Indonesia's anti-Communist parties. Sastroamidjojo still seemed likely to win the premiership, but the anti-Communist bloc had a good chance of playing a role in his Cabinet and his policies...
...intrigue, conspiracy and revolution. Then, with the partitioning of Viet Nam at Geneva, he abruptly became President of Communist North Viet Nam. But running the petty affairs of a nation at peace was not, it seemed, the revolutionary's cup of tea. Last month, turning over the premiership to his trusted lieutenant, Pham Van Dong, "Uncle" Ho withdrew from the public eye. He even neglected to send his usual "Dear nephews and nieces" greeting to the mid-autumn festival...
Early this year, just when people were openly asking when Pao would be taking over the premiership, he ran into the worst sort of trouble that can befall a Thai statesman: star trouble. Thailand's best astrologers predicted in the newspapers that about the month of August, ruin would come upon one or two of Bangkok's mighty. Rumor said that Pao fired three astrologers in a row for providinig hin with unfavorable predictions. At the height of this horoscopic crisis. Preimier Pibulsonggram returned from a trip to the U.S., full of a lot of new ideas...