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...Mapai (Labor) Party, a defeat for the more conservative General Zionists, and a surprising tilt towards the extremists of both sides. Shock-haired Ben-Gurion, Israel's first Premier, who became a shepherd and now has returned to shep herd his people, had acted almost as if the premiership would be his by acclamation. Apparently, the present Premier, Moshe Sharett, also a member of Mapai, was all set to step aside for Ben-Gurion, who is presently Defense Minister in Sharett's Cabinet. Now, if Ben-Gurion does try to form a government, he will need...
...wealthy Iranian landowner, four-time Premier of Iran; after long illness; in Teheran. Known as the "old fox"' of Iranian politics, Qavam was labeled alternately a Communist and a rightist, first became Premier in 1921. He returned from retirement in 1942 to win and hold the wartime premiership, led a successful fight to force the Russians out of Iran after World...
...Tory victory was largely a personal triumph for Premier Leslie Frost, 59. A genial small-town lawyer from Lindsay, Ont. (pop. 9,603). Frost took over the premiership in 1949 and steadily built up the Tory vote by running a smooth, prosperous administration. One of his first moves was to settle a long taxation feud between the Ontario and federal governments. Frost tried no spectacular political experiments, but he kept taxes low, increased welfare grants, ran his cabinet so efficiently that hardly a hint of discord ever was heard outside the caucus room...
...month before their offer to settle the Austrian problem, they fired Hungary's Premier Imre Nagy, a "new course" man (TIME, March 21), and began an all-round tightening up of party and government discipline. Into the premiership last week went 40-year-old Andras Hegedus, who at 24 broke with his well-to-do farmer parents over his Communism and went off to Moscow. After a long talk with Russia's Nikita Khrushchev in 1953, he became
Hungary's Deputy Premier and Agriculture Minister. Ranking only thirteenth in the Politburo in 1951, his rise has been spectacular and he is now the youngest of the top Communist leaders. In his premiership speech, Hegedus laid down the new Moscow line for freedom-bordering Hungary: 1) tighter discipline for factory workers, 2) speedier Sovietization of agriculture, 3) mutual-assistance treaties with the Soviet Union and satellites. To back him up, Finance Minister Karoly Olt announced a 15% increase in police and security measures, and increased Hungary's defense budget. Toughness would be the ticket...