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...struggle was long and costly. After it ended, Molotov was rewarded with the Premiership, which he held for eleven turbulent years (1930-41). During these years, he graduated from machine politics to statesmanship. He fathered the collectivization of Russia's farms, helped to put through the first two Five-Year Plans, worked on the new Constitution...
Last week 50 big Finns waited on Banker-President Risti Ryti, urged him to shelve stiff-necked Premier Edwin Linkomies, hand the job to 73-year-old Juho Kusti Paasikivi. Few expected the old man to accept the Premiership, if offered; many counted on his willingness to try to talk realities with Stalin, if asked...
...district in Manchuria. He was there when Chiang Kai-shek marched into Nanking and consolidated his Nationalist Government. Most of the other war lords joined Chiang then. But not Chang. He sulked in Manchuria and tried a new bargain-this time with the Japanese. For that he earned the premiership of Manchukuo...
...Council President General Nobuyuki Abe, who, during his brief Premiership when World War II had first begun, declared: "The thing for Japan to do is to forge ahead with the . . . new order...
...approached he worked mightily for more & more French appeasement for Germany. After the fall of France, he was the man who bullied President Lebrun into his defeatist decision not to withdraw to Africa, where a Free French Government might have seriously handicapped German designs. Laval got the Vichy Vice Premiership, was the leading exponent of collaboration with Hitler...