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...once complained: "If I appoint him Minister of Industry, I am sure that some day, on opening the door to my office, I'll find him sitting at my desk." Fanfani did just that, but only after De Gasperi was ailing and in semiretirement. Fanfani's first premiership lasted only eleven days in 1954, his second for a frustrating 210 days that ended in 1959 when his steamroller tactics lost him the support of his own Christian Democratic Party colleagues. Fanfani learned from the experience, came back last year wiser in the ways of cooperating and compromising. Today...
Despite their losses, the Social Christians were still the strongest party, would be the backbone of any new coalition. Badly trounced Gaston Eyskens would not be at its head. Emerging as new Social Christian candidate for the premiership is tough, freewheeling 47-year-old Théo Lefèvre. president of the party since 1950. In the end, Lefèvre would probably turn not to the Liberals but to the Socialists for help in forming a government. Socialist Leader Paul-Henri Spaak himself has ambitions for the nation's top job; moreover, the Socialists insisted that they...
...more generous than last year's, he had had enough. Secure in the knowledge that the tribal chiefs were behind him, the King issued royal decree No. 35, dissolving Feisal's government, and royal decree No. 36, which declared that Saud had personally taken over the premiership and all government power...
Premier Prince Souvanna Phouma of Laos is clearly a man who prefers the comforting sound of temple bells to the strident sounds of war. And although he was hoisted to the premiership by young (26) and moody Paratroop Captain Kong Le after a successful coup d'état in August, Souvanna basically abhorred soldiers in government ("There is always a coup in the offing"). He loved peace. To re-establish it after seven years of trouble with the pro-Communist Pathet Lao, Souvanna hopefully sought to end the nagging civil war by forming a government of "national union" that...
...root of Chang's trouble lay the division of his own Democratic Party into "old" and "new" factions. Furious at his failure to win the premiership away from Chang. Old Democratic Leader Kim Do Yun declared that any member of his faction who joined Chang's Cabinet would be considered a turncoat Result was that although Chang offered Cabinet jobs to five Old Democrats, only one-Transportation Minister Chung Hun Joo-accepted...