Word: cabinet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Serenely sensational, the Ceske Slovo went on to warn colleagues of Dr. Edouard Benes in the Czechoslovak Cabinet that they must not expect to learn, even from him, all the details of the secret treaty...
Chancellor Streeruwitz, until recently an active businessman (textiles), listened uncomfortably to the anxious shopkeepers, then called a conference of his Ministers. From this Cabinet session came an announcement that "the misgiving noted in economic circles at home and alarming reports in the newspapers lack justification." It was announced that in the future Schutzbund and Heimwehr demonstrations will not be allowed in the same city on the same...
Well knowing that the Austrian Government, with an army reduced to a scattered force of 30,000 men by the Treaty of St. Germain, cannot enforce the Cabinet's orders, bristling Schutzbund and Heimwehr leaders grew more than ever violent in language as the week progressed. Cried fiery Dr. Pfrimer, Vienna Heimwehr Commander: "For our brothers whom the Schutzbund have slain, the Heimwehr will take revenge in a form that will be remembered for many a long...
Slim, wasp-waisted, high-strung President Chiang Kai-shek of China seemed to crack suddenly under the strain of the Sino-Russian crisis one day last week. At a meeting of the Cabinet at Nanking he wrung his small bony hands and wailed out despairingly one of the most remarkable speeches ever made by a Chief Executive on the eve of war. "Tell me the reason," began Chiang excitedly, "tell me why Soviet Russia can oppress our people...
...While Cabinet ministers looked bewilderedly at one another, President Chiang answered his own question with a torrent of shrill words. "We are not united! We do not work hard to make our country strong. . . . Not only Russia but all foreign countries do not give us due respect. . . . If we do not strive hard to make a great struggle we shall be finished. We must confess that even in Nanking, our capital, we can ask ourselves: how many military and civil officials of our General Staff can be favorably compared in spirit and energy with the foreigners? How many...