Word: portfolios
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Blimp first appears as a gallant and naive young officer named Clive Candy (Roger Livesey), back from the Boer War with a V.C., who takes it upon himself-very much without diplomatic portfolio-to go to Berlin in order to refute some popular German lies about British mistreatment of Boer prisoners. A café quarrel leads to a duel, thanks to which young Candy 1) gets the wound which causes him to raise his Blimpish mustache, 2) makes a lifelong friend of his unwilling opponent (Anton Walbrook), 3) loses, to this Prussian officer, a charming English girl (Deborah Kerr) whom...
...appointed Revenue Minister Colin Gibson as Air Minister, to replace Charles Gavan Power, who had resigned. James MacKinnon, Trade & Commerce Minister, would keep that portfolio, said Mr. King, and take on Mr. Gibson's Revenue Ministry too, temporarily...
...other high posts were reshuffled: dapper, German-trained Chu Chia-hua became Minister of Education, replacing Kuomintang bigwig Chen Li-fu, who took over the Ministry of Kuomintang Organization. Liberal, professorial Dr. Wang Shih-chieh became Minister of Information, replacing Liang Han-chao, who received the portfolio of Overseas Affairs. Chang Li-sheng, Secretary General of the Executive Yuan, became Minister of the Interior, replacing Chou Chung-yao, who took the vice-presidency of the Examination Yuan...
...Athens, and if he does, woe betide poor Greece. She will be bathed in blood." He added: "Watch young Venizelos (liberal Vice Premier, who recently left the Papandreou Government in a huff), and keep a weather eye on the shadowy figure called Rendis, who until recently was minister without portfolio in the Papandreou Cabinet...
...able to hold Egypt and Suez, might have been disastrous. Last week, when Anthony Eden (who reportedly dislikes Menemencioglu) complained that German warships, disguised as merchantmen, had been allowed to cruise through Turkey's Dardanelles, Ankara had to give in. Numan Menemencioglu took the fall, handed over his portfolio to Premier Sükrü Saracoglu. But nobody thought brilliant Mr. Menemencioglu was out for a very long count...