Word: cabineteer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...left 1,700 Arabs, Jews, British soldiers and police dead or wounded. Into this bloody mess last week stepped the figure of Seyyid Tawfik al Suwaidi, Foreign Minister of Iraq. Invited to London by the British, Seyyid Tawfik conferred last week with the only Jew in the Chamberlain Cabinet, War Secretary Leslie Hore-Belisha, and with Scottish Colonial Secretary Malcolm MacDonald. Seyyid Tawfik then proffered a plan. Ignoring Britain's original idea of partition, he proposed that Palestine be set up as an independent state under British influence, similar in status to Iraq, that further immigration of Jews...
...mobilization had cost so much that the Cabinet, with sighs of relief, blamed the increased but chronic French Treasury shortage entirely on that, and Premier Daladier set about trying to revalue the gold reserve-which was last revalued in July 1937-so as to make a "paper profit" last week of 34,500,000,000 francs ($931,500,000). The mobilization bill was footed at 12,800,000,000 francs; 4,000,000,000 was paid in cash to those who through necessity or fear withdrew their money from the savings banks when France started to "march...
...help Premier Daladier get France "back to normalcy" as soon as possible, President Albert Lebrun and the Cabinet signed over to him decree powers running until Jan. 1, 1939. In democratic France the parliamentary rumpus stirred up by this forced the Premier to promise not to use these powers after November 15 without a further mandate from Deputies and Senators. Daladier had previously been voted confidence 535-to-75 by the Chamber, after keynoting: "All Frenchmen must now consider themselves permanently mobilized in the service of Peace. . . . We hope to substitute legal practices for solutions by force. ... In the interests...
...Chamber vote on the decree of plenary powers was of extreme significance because the Popular Front coalition, on which the Daladier Cabinet is nominally based, split three ways. Its Communists voted "Non"; its Socialists abstained; its Radical Socialists voted "Oui." Thus Premier Daladier-opposed by the Reds and deserted by the Pinks-won only because the remainder of the Chamber, the Right, voted "Oui" with his Radical Socialists (who are moderates). He was considered to have emerged from the debate as head of a new coalition broadly Middle Class, with a touch of French Aristocracy...
Meanwhile, in Czechoslovakia the Prague Government made the smart move of granting autonomy within the Republic to the Slovaks and leaving the new Slovak Cabinet, which was at once set up under Premier Dr. Jozef Tiso, to undertake the thankless job of negotiating with Hungary, which has claimed slices of Czechoslovakia. In Slovak areas Hungarians had hoped to find some of that "yearning" for Hungary which the Sudetens felt for Germany. However, as soon as the Slovaks were given some of the chance to act big which they have long been denied in Czechoslovakia, they started being niggardly with Budapest...