Word: secretariat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...secretariat (kitchen cabinet) with five new members. First secretary: Joseph Stalin...
French Reform: Moroccan and Tunisian nationalist leaders in 1946 demanded the suppression of the French secretariat, administration and gendarmarie, the complete elimination of French influence from government except in local bodies where there was a French minority. The French government replied with a program of reforms which provided for Arab representation in local and municipal government. Reform plans were submerged under a hail of protests from the 1) French colonials, who thought the Arabs were getting too much, and 2) the Arab nationalists, who thought they were not getting enough. France still believes a compromise possible. The French...
Last week the party moved to punish the culprits. A communiqué itemized their sins; they added up to "fractionalism." Marty was fired from the party secretariat, but kept his job in the politburo. Tillon was fired from the politburo, but remained on the central committee. Both were given a month to recant and confess in approved Communist style. Only the fact that Old Heroes Marty and Tillon still have many followers inside the party saved them from immediate disgrace and expulsion. Said the party communiqué: the central committee is determined "to do everything to help comrades in error...
...only six weeks, paid a visit to Tito last week, he found a new Mrs. Tito* by the dictator's side. She is a svelte and bronzed brunette, Jovanka Budisavljevic, 28, a major in the Yugoslav army who had been assigned last year to Tito's secretariat. She had joined Tito's partisans at 17 and by war's end was a lieutenant. Last spring the dictator put aside his dictation long enough to get married. The wedding was held in deepest secrecy. The Yugoslav press has still made no official announcement of it, but invitations...
...narrow but tall enough to be vast-are exciting today's architects as pencil-point skyscrapers did their predecessors. No man has done more than Wallace Harrison to make the idea a reality: he cloaked it with stone in creating Rockefeller Center and with glass in the U.N. Secretariat...