In July 1954 he relinquished the premiership to Mehmet Shehu, keeping for himself the more important post of first secretary of the Party.
Enver Hoxha, first secretary of the Albanian Workers' Party in 1970, and Mehmet Shehu, premier and second ranking Party member, were wartime leaders of the Communist resistance forces.
In 1970 he still held the same position, under the title of first secretary.
Footnote 58: Mr. Irwin Laughlin, first secretary of the American Embassy in London; at this time spending a few weeks in the United States.
He was supposed to be the âme damnée of Mahmoud, especially by Mahmoud himself, who destined him for the important confidential post of First Secretary to the Sultan.
Drummond, Sir James Eric, first Secretary-General of League of Nations, xii: 186.
Illustration: Robert Woods Bliss, First Secretary of the United States Embassy in Paris, September, 1914.
In 1962 Zhivkov purged the party of both Chervenkov and Yugov and made himself premier as well as first secretary, thus reestablishing the principle of unity of rule (see ch.
In 1954 Chervenkov gave up his title as first secretary of the party, thus setting a new precedent for separation of party and state posts and dispelling the concept of one-man rule.
Real power vested in communist party's first secretary, Politburo, Secretariat, and Central Committee.
First Secretary Zhivkov, for example, was also president of the State Council, the leading government body, which made him the top man in both party and government.
So it was arranged that he should go to Washington as First Secretary, and the rest of the plan was likely to be carried out even if there should be a change in the party in power.
He named it, and it was to be First Secretary at Washington when his promotion was due, then service at some smaller European court as Minister, and to succeed Lord Baudesert on his retirement.
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