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...president of the Moslem League, in 1916-19, 1921, pot-bellied Huq had helped to inflame Moslems with their first dream of Pakistan. But in 1943, when he lost the premiership of Bengal Province he was converted to the predominantly Hindu All-India Congress, turned like a tiger on the League and its president Mohamed Ali Jinnah...
Since a desperate National Assembly had voted him the Premiership a fortnight ago (after M.R.P. and Communist candidates had been defeated), France's grand old man of Socialism had been absorbed in futile attempts to form a Cabinet. The Radicals and their affiliates refused to join a Government which did not include the Rightists; the Communists refused to enter a Government which did. Formula after formula had been shattered by their rock-like intransigence...
...Comrade Gottwald would have to go a little easy. Although in the new Cabinet the Communists kept their old key posts of Interior, Information and Labor, in addition to the premiership, their only new portfolios were Finance and Internal Commerce, two difficult spots in view of Czechoslovakia's strained economic situation. Middle-of-the-road National Socialists remained strong partly because President Eduard Benes, grand, not very old (62) man of Czechoslovakia, belongs to their party. Jan Masaryk, an Independent, keeps the Foreign Affairs Ministry...
Dogged Manitoban farmers know that Garson, who came into the premiership after a tight-fisted stint as provincial treasurer, is no spendthrift. If he was convinced that now was the time to splurge and make Manitoba a more prosperous province, they" were ready to give him what he wants...
...foreign affairs; a crack administrator, he was Premier for eleven years until Stalin took the post over in 1941. The fact that Molotov's name followed just after Stalin on a recent official list of Soviet leaders was a sign that the Foreign Commissar might return to the Premiership. C| Marshal Alexander Vasilevsky, 48, Red Army Chief of Staff (1943-45), signed the anniversary Order of the Day as Stalin's deputy. He left his planning job to acquire glory as the conqueror of Konigsberg in East Prussia and as commander in the brief war against Japan. Vasilevsky...