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...King's summer palace, 16 miles from Athens, and suggested a Tsaldaris-Venizelos coalition-let each be Premier for three months, in rotation. Many things are possible in Greek politics, but not that. The King said no; instead, without telling Tsaldaris, he decided to give the premiership to War Minister Panayotis Kanellopoulos, one of Greece's few first-rate administrators. U.S. officials were delighted with the King's choice...
...test George Drew's leadership of Canada's chief opposition party, the Progressive Conservatives. When Parliament was dissolved last week, the Progressive Conservatives (Tories) held 69 of the House's 245 seats against 125 for the Liberals. Last January George Drew, 55, had given up the premiership of Ontario to become the Tory leader. In the federal Parliament he had been an outspoken, hard-hitting member. He had made things hum in the House, had thrown his party into high gear...
...attended Buchmanite moral rearmament meetings while in the U.S., decided he must "fight idea with idea" rather than "force with force." After the Japanese surrender, Ho opposed Chiang's policy of attempting to hold Manchuria against the Communists. In 1948 he spurned Chiang's offer of the premiership...
...Called Sun Fo, son of famed Sun Yat-sen to the premiership...
...what jobs in the new cabinet would the defeated Communists find most acceptable? The premiership and the Ministry of the Interior (police...