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...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...
...start a revolution tomorrow." The Reds tried force eventually, but by then Scelba had 200,000 well-trained men (including the jeep-riding Reparto Celere riot squads) who squelched the troublemakers with some shooting and 7,000 arrests. His hardfisted record earned him the nickname "Iron Sicilian." Premiership. Out of office for five months after De Gasperi's last Cabinet, Scelba emerged as a prospect for Premier in early 1954. To a reporter who came to his office, just as a forlorn lemon tree on the terrace began to bear fruit, Scelba remarked: "I didn't think this...
...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...
...save his country, he was tried by the Vichy government, handed over to the Germans and spent four rigorous years in French and German prisons. His wartime imprisonment and his excellent record as a member of the French Assembly since 1946 have brought about a reappraisal of his fatal premiership. Says De Gaulle in his recent memoirs: "In such conditions, the intelligence of Paul Reynaud, his courage, the authority of his office, were deployed, so to speak, in a vacuum...