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After considerable palaver and eager intercession by the U.S., Russian and British ambassadors, Souvanna agreed to resume his premiership, backed by the rightists and his own neutralist battalions. The men of the Communist Pathet Lao, who hold the central and northern portions of the country, remained outside the government and were nourished by lengthy truck convoys lurching down dusty Route 7 from the North Viet Nam frontier...
Hassanali Mansur began grooming himself for the premiership in 1961 when he established a 194-man committee of fellow experts to draw up plans for economic and administrative improvements in Iran. His new Cabinet is composed of 22 technicians, whose average age is 42; while, at 40, Mansur himself is Iran's youngest Premier in 40 years...
...This is oil and water," cracked Italy's new Foreign Minister Giuseppe Saragat. The new center-left coalition, outgrowth of the apertura a sinistra (opening to the left) which started almost two years ago, last week finally managed to form a Cabinet. In addition to the premiership, the Christian Democrats wound up with 15 of the 26 Cabinet positions, including the key ministries of Defense, Treasury, and Internal Affairs. Along with the vice premiership, the left-wing Socialists got five more posts, the only important one being the Budget Ministry. Four Cabinet jobs went to the solidly anti-Communist...
...distrusted their motives, Diem refused his support to the French colonialists, the Japanese invaders and the local Communists. He went into self-exile in the U.S. and Belgium, living in Roman Catholic monasteries. In 1954, needing a scapegoat for their collapsing policies in Asia, France offered Diem the premiership of South Viet...
Home's rise to the premiership has no parallel in modern times. He has been in politics for 27 of his 60 years, but he had held no Cabinet post before he became Commonwealth Relations Secretary. Though he worked diligently in the Commonwealth job and was also an able leader of the House of Lords before he took over the Foreign Office from Selwyn Lloyd in 1960, few Britons knew his name, and even fewer could pronounce it correctly. Most critics were angered by the fact that the Foreign Secretary would sit in the Lords, sheltered from the heavy...