Word: ministere
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Big, sleek, masterful Sir Joseph Ward completed, last week, a remarkable comeback to Power. He was last Prime Minister from 1906 to 1912. Prior to the Parliamentary Election of last month he welded disaffected groups into the new Union Party (TIME, Nov. 26), and when ballots were counted was found...
Last week this comeback was masterfully staged. Today Sir Joseph Ward is again "His Majesty's Prime Minister in New Zealand." This development, portentous, means that New Zealand has swung away from the intense conservatism and empire loyalty of Mr. Coates, to a judicious but advanced liberalism stopping just...
Chinese alibis being what they so often are, it was freely rumored that Yen and his Shansi were at best holding aloof and at worst were likely to attack Nanking. Last week, however, the Marshal pompously approached "Southern Capital" upon his private train, accompanied by wife and retinue. At the...
Shortly, Marshal Yen Hsi-shan was installed as Minister of Interior of the new Nationalist Government. At last it could be said that a single Cabinet contains all the outstanding soldiers and statesmen of China. The occasion made it appropriate if not imperative to explain just what the Nationalist State...
Some months ago the Nationalists served notice that they would no longer tolerate foreign control of China's tariff machinery (TIME, June 25); and last week it appeared that no Great Power except Japan would challenge China's present determination to fix her tariffs without foreign interference. The...