Word: cabinets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...November 30 a front-page Daily Worker feature read, Another Soviet clarion call for peace was made today by Joseph Stalin." The next day, December 1, the Worker's headline was, RED ARMY HURLS BACK INVADING FINNISH TROOPS, CROSSES BORDER, while the Times said, FINNS' CABINET RESIGNS AS SOVIET MOMBS CITIES; NEW GOVERNMENT EXPECTED TO SEEK A TRUCE; 200 ARE KILLED. The next day a feature headline in the Worker asked, "Why did the Times censor the facts on Finland...
...pipes or cigarets from mouths, or hands from pockets. The Royal Navy appreciates what tough work it is they do, having a mine-sweeping fleet of its own. Publicly discovered last week was the fact that Robin Inskip, 22, son of Viscount Caldecote (Lord Chancellor in the Chamberlain War Cabinet), was aboard the mine sweeper Aragonite when she was blown out of water last fortnight with serious injury to four men. Safe home in London with his family, Robin Inskip chirped: "A bit of a shakeup...
Wednesday there was a fresh epidemic of Finnish "attacks." The Finnish high command ordered troops withdrawn a half mile from the border to make impossible such reports. The Cabinet met early and at noon Foreign Minister Eljas Erkko telegraphed to Baron Yrjo-Koskinen the text of another Finnish note. The note had not arrived when the baron was called to the Russian Foreign Office at 10:30 p. m. There was wide suspicion that it had been deliberately held up in transmission. At any rate, Vice Commissar for Foreign Affairs Vladimir Potemkin had other business to transact with Minister Yrjo...
...duchy of Anjou. This province was the patrimony of Henry III of Valois who in 1573 was elected King of Poland. Appropriately Angers, with its "Chateau of the King of Poland" and along the Maine its "Wharves of the King of Poland," was chosen by the French Cabinet to serve as the expatriate "Capital of Poland...
...pale and hollow-eyed watching the telegraph poles flash past. A political neutral, onetime President of the Senate in Warsaw, the ailing President leaves nearly everything to his active Premier, suave, resourceful General Wladyslaw Sikorski who chatted busily in the train last week with members of his cabinet, many of whom a few short weeks ago were fleeing impoverished across Poland to escape as best they could...