Word: premiership
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...month before their offer to settle the Austrian problem, they fired Hungary's Premier Imre Nagy, a "new course" man (TIME, March 21), and began an all-round tightening up of party and government discipline. Into the premiership last week went 40-year-old Andras Hegedus, who at 24 broke with his well-to-do farmer parents over his Communism and went off to Moscow. After a long talk with Russia's Nikita Khrushchev in 1953, he became
Hungary's Deputy Premier and Agriculture Minister. Ranking only thirteenth in the Politburo in 1951, his rise has been spectacular and he is now the youngest of the top Communist leaders. In his premiership speech, Hegedus laid down the new Moscow line for freedom-bordering Hungary: 1) tighter discipline for factory workers, 2) speedier Sovietization of agriculture, 3) mutual-assistance treaties with the Soviet Union and satellites. To back him up, Finance Minister Karoly Olt announced a 15% increase in police and security measures, and increased Hungary's defense budget. Toughness would be the ticket...
...Prime Minister] health and strength," said ex-Prime Minister Clement Attlee in the course of a tribute to Churchill. "We cannot, of course, wish him a long tenure of office . . . but as a Mr. Young said to Lord Melbourne when that statesman was hesitating to accept the premiership: 'Why, damn it all . . . if it only last three months, it will be worthwhile to have been Prime Minister of England...
Tory Democracy. Reluctant to risk his premiership so soon after waiting for it so long, Eden was nonetheless reported sympathetic to a quick election, possibly May 26 or June 16. Before then, he hopes, the new Cabinet will dig itself in and prove its competence. There will be no dramatic changes in British policy, either at home or abroad. The big names of the Eden Cabinet, notably Macmillan and the tough-minded Marquess of Salisbury, who is staying on as Lord President of the Council, share a warm though hardheaded friendliness towards...
...crash of Dienbienphu. During that decisive battle, Diem discerned that his time to serve might be at hand. He quit the monastery and moved into a garret in Paris. The French, in part because they needed someone on whom to unload catastrophe, offered Diem the Viet Nam premiership, with their first acceptable promise of independence. On June 15, 1954, Ngo Dinh Diem took the job and headed back to Saigon. "We don't know where we're going," said one of his aides, contemplating chaos, "but the captain is reliable and our boat is clean...