Word: cabineteer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Blasted from little Figueras, the fourth Loyalist capital since the war began, Premier Juan Negrin, most of his cabinet and a few of his military aides early in the week made a beeline for the French border 17 miles away. The French Government, anxious to get in the good graces of Rebel Generalissimo Franco, quietly let it be known that the Loyalist Government would not be allowed to carry on its activities in French territory...
Back in Madrid, the Loyalists' first capital,* the Premier called what remains of his cabinet together, proclaimed Madrid the capital once more of the Loyalist Government. With weatherbeaten old General Miaja as Generalissimo and commander-in-chief of all of central Spain, the Premier drafted a proclamation calling for "a compact, heroic national front" to make a last-ditch stand in the Madrid area. "Our fate is at stake and it depends entirely upon ourselves to come out successfully from the present situation through our own will power and determination. Either we shall all save ourselves or sink ourselves...
Last week Premier Spaak did. King Leopold turned the job of forming a new Cabinet and placating the angry veterans over to onetime Premier Henri Jaspar...
...have been a world-wide celebration: the 17th anniversary of the Pope's coronation. For these Cardinals there was much to do. Their first corporate act was to meet for consultation on a multitude of matters with Cardinal Camerlengo Pacelli and the three Cardinals who now constituted his cabinet. These three were the deans, eldest in point of service, of the three orders-of Cardinals which make up the College. Sitting in a row sheltered by the same baldachin (canopy), the Camerlengo and the three deans assumed many of the qualities of a reigning Pope, were entitled...
...censorship clutches by being privately performed before "club members" who pay, not admission, but two shillings extra dues. Partly using the plot of the old fairy tale, Babes in the Wood introduces Chamberlain-umbrella and all -as "The Wicked Uncle," Hitler and Mussolini as "The Robbers." A Cabinet meeting at No. 10 Downing Street takes place in a privy with No. 10 painted on the door. Another scene shows the Cliveden Set, led by Lady Astor, goose-stepping and giving the Nazi salute...