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...Professor Albert J. Guerard's "Andre Gide." In the appendix, Guerard publishes two letters from Gide who read a preliminary version of the book. During the fall a biography of Lloyd George will be printed, written by Thomas Jones, who was deputy secretary of the British Cabinet during his premiership...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University Press to Publish More of Roosevelt Letters | 9/20/1951 | See Source »

...that Syria (which is roughly equal in size and population to Missouri) should align itself with the West, a point of view which sometimes results in having one's head blown off. Surprisingly, Syria's strong man, Lieut. Colonel Adib Shishakli, who had approved Hakim's premiership, made no objection; neither was there popular outcry. Hakim's reasoning, in interviews with newspapermen, was hardheaded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SYRIA: Courageous Premier | 8/27/1951 | See Source »

Candidates for the premiership started a revolving-door traffic the next day. First to try was M.R.P. Leader Georges Bi-dault. He hoped to put through a one-ballot reform system and proposed a sense-making coalition running all the way from the Socialists to the Gaullists. The prospective coalition members balked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: The Importance of Elections | 3/12/1951 | See Source »

...nose, stringy mustache and thick-lensed spectacles, wide-brimmed hat and spats were targets of caricaturists of Right and Left. Once Royalist hoodlums dragged him from his car and beat him up; he refused to prosecute them. In 1936 the Popular Front carried the elections. Leon Blum took the premiership...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: My Generation Failed . . . | 4/10/1950 | See Source »

Walter Ulbricht, once a Leipzig woodworker, who became a Comintern agent during the Spanish Civil War, returned from Moscow to Germany with the Red army after the war, became Politburo member of Eastern Germany's Socialist Unity Party. Last month he stepped into the acting premiership of Eastern Germany when Premier Otto Grotewohl was reported ill. In imitation of Lenin, Ulbricht wears a trowel-like beard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: WE HAVE BEEN NAUGHT, WE SHALL BE ALL | 1/9/1950 | See Source »

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