Word: premiership
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Japan's lean little Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi and the U.S.'s bulky rangy Secretary of State John Foster Dulles have one thing very much in common: they both like to travel. In the eleven months since he took over the premiership from aging, ailing Tanzan Isibashi, Kishi has set a dizzying pace. Last May he took off for a tour of six Southeastern Asian nations, followed up with a state visit to Washington. Last week Kishi was in the air again, this time on a tour of eight nations, including Australia and the Philippines...
...Hills. In 1940, with the German might pouring over his beaches, King Haakon refused to appoint the traitor Quisling to the Norwegian premiership. He fled Oslo to the forbidding North, and, relentlessly pursued by the Nazis, twice narrowly escaped death. His forces held out for longer than those in any other Nazi-invaded country, and during the 62 days of resistance more Nazi soldiers were killed than there were men in the entire Norwegian army. Aboard a British cruiser, Haakon escaped at last to England, where his voice, broadcast by the BBC, carried on a clarion call for resistance...
...elected a Radical Socialist Deputy from the Charente; in 1953, as Secretary of State to Premier René Mayer, launched le plan Gaillard, a five-year program for French atomic energy development. After holding junior office in four successive Cabinets went into temporary eclipse during the premiership of fellow Radical Socialist Pierre Mendès-France, who thought him overly conservative, overly Europe-minded. In 1955 headed French delegation which laid the groundwork for the Common Market and Euratom treaties...
...political skill. Khrushchev could handle himself well in party scraps, and alone among Soviet leaders he could talk to the people. Outwardly, the Presidium was a crowd of collectively equal commissars, punching each other playfully in the ribs at Foreign Office receptions. But when Malenkov was bounced from the premiership in 1955, both Shepilov's accusing Pravda editorial and Bulganin's subsequent speech of denunciation were phrased as if by men who sought to keep dutifully within the outline of a party resolution; only Khrushchev and Mikoyan spoke out with the assurance of men who had made...
...could decipher signals from the experts on the far horizon, and explain to me in lucid, homely terms what the issues were"), he had a hand in the balloon barrage, setting up the radar screen, and counter-measures for magnetic mines. In Churchill's second premiership he served (1951-53) as adviser on all atomic programs...