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

After achieving autonomy in 1965, the Cook Islands elected Albert Henry of the Cook Islands Party as their first Prime Minister.

1986 — In January 1986, following the rift between New Zealand and the USA in respect of the ANZUS security arrangements Prime Minister Tom Davis declared the Cook Islands a neutral country, because he considered that New Zealand ( which has control over the islands ' defence and foreign policy ) was no longer in a position to defend the islands.

New Prime Minister Geoffrey Henry was fiercely critical of the decision and dispatched a vaka ( traditional voyaging canoe ) with a crew of Cook Islands ' traditional warriors to protest near the test site.

** Prime Ministers of the Cook Islands

The show became a great success in London after being first performed at the Edinburgh Festival and included Cook impersonating the Prime Minister, Harold Macmillan.

* June 24 – Joseph Cook becomes the 6th Prime Minister of Australia.

* Prime Minister Joseph Cook ( Australia )

* December 7 – Joseph Cook, sixth Prime Minister of Australia ( d. 1947 )

For the task, Prime Minister Stephen Harper convened a special search group — the Governor General Consultation Committee — which consisted of Sheila-Marie Cook, secretary to the Governor General ( the chairperson ); Canadian Secretary to the Queen and Usher of the Black Rod Kevin MacLeod ; Christopher Manfredi, dean of the Faculty of Arts at McGill University ; Rainer Knopff, a political scientist at the University of Calgary ; Father Jacques Monet, of the Canadian Institute of Jesuit Studies ; and Christopher McCreery, historian and private secretary to the Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia.

The show broke new ground with Peter Cook's impression of then Prime Minister Harold Macmillan ; on one occasion, this was performed with Macmillan in the audience, and Cook added an ad lib ridiculing Macmillan for turning up to watch.

In 1778, Lieutenant James Cook named the island after the family name of the Duke of Grafton, who was the British Prime Minister when his ship, the HMB Endeavour, had set sail.

Australian soldiers carrying the ' little digger ' down George Street, Sydney after Hughes returned from the Paris Peace Conference. In 1919, Hughes and former Prime Minister Joseph Cook travelled to Paris to attend the Versailles peace conference.

* Joe Williams ( Cook Islands politician ), former Prime Minister of the Cook Islands

Sir Joseph Cook, GCMG ( 7 December 1860 – 30 July 1947 ) was an Australian politician and the sixth Prime Minister of Australia.

As leader of the Liberal Party, Cook became Prime Minister following the 1913 elections ; but he only had a one-seat majority in the lower house and no majority at all in the upper house, so he repeatedly sought to obtain a double dissolution.

At the 1913 elections Cook won a one-seat majority in the House of Representatives, while Labor retained a majority in the Senate, and in doing so became the sixth Prime Minister of Australia.

Bust of Joseph Cook by sculptor Wallace Anderson located in the Prime Ministers Avenue in the Ballarat Botanical Gardens

Cook is the only Prime Minister up to Gough Whitlam who does not have a federal electorate named after him.

Although there is a seat called Cook, that was named not after the Prime Minister but after Captain James Cook.

When Hughes was expelled from the Labor Party after the first referendum, Munro Ferguson allowed him to stay in office as a minority Prime Minister and encouraged Hughes and Cook to form a new party, the Nationalist Party, on a " win the war " platform.

Notable examples of social mobility include Pierre Bérégovoy who started working at the age of 16 as a metal worker and later became Prime Minister of France, Ramsay MacDonald the illegitimate son of a farm labourer and a housemaid who became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, and Sir Joseph Cook, an Englishman who had no schooling and worked as a coal miner at the age of nine and went on to become Prime Minister of Australia.