Word: premiership
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Greeks and Jugoslavs have struggled mightily since the War for political control of Albania, a republic bounded by Greece, Jugoslavia and the Adriatic. Last week the influence of Jugoslavia became definitely predominant at Tirana (the capital) when Ahmed Bey Zogu, the Jugoslav-born President of Albania, called to the Premiership Cena Bey, also a Jugoslav by birth. The Greek faction, headed by onetime (June-Dec. 1923) Premier Bishop Fan Stylian Noli (now exiled in Italy), were reported last week to be seeking aid from Premier Mussolini wherewith to regain control of Albania and oust therefrom the Jugoslavs...
...Commons (1918) as Premier Lloyd George swept the country with his "Hang the Kaiser" campaign, but resumed his seat in the House (1920) and leadership of the Liberal Party. Later he made peace with Mr. Lloyd George in the year following the letter's fall from the Premiership (1922). The two uniting against the tariff proposals of Premier Stanley Baldwin threw the Liberal party behind the first and only Labor Government of Britain (1924) and caused the fall of this cabinet by withdrawing Liberal support later in the same year. He was created Earl of Oxford and Asquith...
Events national and international impinged significantly during the past fortnight upon Premier Raymond Poincare. He who stepped from the Olympian security of a onetime (1913-1920) Presidency of France to assume a thankless Premiership and save the franc (TIME, Aug. 2), became once again a nucleus for strife, a target for criticism...
...well might chase them from Warsaw, united in a desperate attempt to force Marshal Pilsudski into the open and voted what amounted to "no confidence" in the Cabinet 260 to 92. The Bartel Cabinet thereupon resigned. Marshal Pilsudski, to the satisfaction of many a Pole, countered by assuming the Premiership himself. Significance. The new Cabinet was generally hailed with relief by the press of Warsaw as "a strong Left Democratic Government . . . the strongest Ministry assembled in Poland since the re-establishment of Polish independence [1918].- This enthusiasm was traceable in some degree to the satisfaction of wealthy newspaper owners...
Premier Arthur Meighen of Canada, his party (Conservative) defeated at the polls (TIME, Sept. 27), quietly handed the resignation of his Cabinet to Governor General Baron Byng. The Baron was preparing to return to England last week and scarcely tarried longer than it took to call to the Premiership William Lyon Mackenzie King, leader of the victorious Liberals...