Ordinary methods of diplomacy within the free world are inadequate, said the former Prime Minister.

Former British Prime Minister Attlee says Eisenhower was not a `` great soldier ''.

We had nearly decided that all the tales of Lao lethargy must be true, when we were invited to take a trip with the Prime Minister.

In Keng Kok, the City of Silkworms, the Prime Minister bought fried chickens and fried cicadas, and two notebooks for me.

The Prime Minister paid his respects to the Buddhist monks, strode rapidly among the houses, joked with the local soldiery, and made a speech.

This was expanded upon by Prime Minister Wilfrid Laurier, who established a Division of Anthropology within the Geological Survey in 1910.

The executive branch of the government was composed of the President, the Prime Minister and Council of Ministers.

Prime Minister Pedro Pires sent FARP soldiers to Angola where they served as the personal bodyguards of Angolan President José Eduardo dos Santos.

Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao visited Angola in June 2006, offering a US $ 9 billion loan for infrastructure improvements in return for petroleum.

After that case Poirot apparently came to the attention of the British secret service, and undertook cases for the British government, including foiling the attempted abduction of the Prime Minister.

* 1968 – Pierre Elliot Trudeau wins the Liberal Leadership Election, and becomes Prime Minister of Canada soon after.

* 1902 – Louis Beel, Dutch politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands ( d. 1977 )

* 1924 – Raymond Barre, French politician, Prime Minister of France ( d. 2007 )

* 1803 – Albrecht von Roon, Prussian soldier and statesman, 10th Prime Minister of Prussia ( d. 1879 )

* 1908 – Bjarni Benediktsson, Icelandic politician, Prime Minister of Iceland ( d. 1970 )

* 1949 – António Guterres, Portuguese politician, Prime Minister of Portugal

* 1955 – Dimitra Liani, Greek air hostess, widow of Greek Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou

* 1959 – Stephen Harper, Canadian politician, 22nd Prime Minister of Canada

* 1918 – Jelle Zijlstra, Dutch politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands ( d. 2001 )

* 1928 – Péter Boross, Hungarian politician, Prime Minister of Hungary

* 1966 – Juhan Parts, Estonian politician, 14th Prime Minister of Estonia

* 1765 – Petros Mavromichalis, Greek general and politician, Prime Minister of Greece ( d. 1848 )

* 1916 – Dom Mintoff, Maltese politician and journalist, 8th Prime Minister of Malta ( d. 2012 )

* 1944 – Khaleda Zia, Bangladeshi politician, 9th Prime Minister of Bangladesh

* 1961 – John Key, New Zealand politician, 38th Prime Minister of New Zealand

The Balfour Declaration of 1926, a report resulting from the 1926 Imperial Conference of British Empire leaders in London, was named after the British statesman Arthur Balfour, first Earl of Balfour, Lord President of the Council and a previous Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

That was the fount and origin of the famous declaration about the National Home for the Jews in Palestine .... As soon as I became Prime Minister I talked the whole matter over with Mr Balfour, who was then Foreign Secretary.

Scots played a major part in the leadership of UK political parties producing a Conservative Prime Minister in Arthur Balfour ( 1902 – 05 ) and a Liberal one in Henry Campbell-Bannerman ( 1905 – 08 ).

As late as 1904, Arthur Balfour explained the status of his office in a speech at Haddington: " The Prime Minister has no salary as Prime Minister.

Prime Ministers from 1900 to 1945: Marquess of Salisbury, Arthur Balfour, Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, Herbert Henry Asquith, David Lloyd George, Andrew Bonar Law, Stanley Baldwin, Ramsay MacDonald, Stanley Baldwin, Ramsay MacDonald, Stanley Baldwin, Neville Chamberlain and Winston Churchill.

A new building was begun in 1895 and opened by the Prime Minister Arthur Balfour in October 1902.

** Arthur James Balfour, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom ( d. 1930 )

* March 19 – Arthur James Balfour, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom ( b. 1848 )

At this point Lloyd George resigned, and on 5 December 1916, no longer enjoying the support of the press or of leading Conservatives, Asquith himself resigned, declining to serve under any other Prime Minister ( Balfour or Bonar Law having been mooted as potential new leaders of the coalition ).

Under pressure from Balfour and Queen Victoria, the ailing Salisbury surrendered the seals of the Foreign Office on 23 October though remaining as Prime Minister.

The Prime Minister was keen that Balfour, his nephew should succeed him, but realised that Chamberlain's followers felt that the Colonial Secretary had a legitimate claim to the premiership.

Chamberlain and the new Prime Minister, Balfour, were very different men.

Chamberlain wanted to use this as a start for the reform of Britain's trade, and he was encouraged by a report submitted in June by the President of the Board of Trade, Gerald Balfour, the Prime Minister's younger brother, recommending reciprocal agreements with the colonies.

His impromptu speech stunned Balfour and the Cabinet, the Prime Minister having just insisted publicly that it was not yet time to implement a policy of Imperial Preference.

The Prime Minister then forced the resignations of Ritchie and Lord Balfour of Burleigh for having submitted memoranda advocating Free Trade.

* Arthur Balfour, Prime Minister, 1902 – 1905

Indeed, for a short period in early 1906, Chamberlain was the de facto leader of the Unionist alliance in the House of Commons, as the Conservative party leader, and former Prime Minister, Arthur Balfour had lost his seat in the election ( though he soon managed to return to parliament after a conveniently-arranged by-election ).

Balfour succeeded his uncle Lord Salisbury as Prime Minister and Conservative Party leader in July 1902 ( Balfour had been Conservative leader in the House of Commons since 1891 ).

Smith in 1891, Balfour became First Lord of the Treasury — the last one in British history not to have been concurrently Prime Minister as well — and Leader of the House of Commons.

On Lord Salisbury's resignation on 11 July 1902, Balfour succeeded him as Prime Minister, with the approval of all sections of the Unionist party.