Word: premier
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pravda's vituperation was based on a speech made by Finnish Premier Aimo Cajander in Helsinki in which the Premier advised Finns to plow their fields with their rifles to their shoulders. According to the Russians, the Premier also spoke kindly of how Tsars Alexander I and II had respected Finnish rights and compared the Soviet Union's aggressive policy unfavorably with the Tsars...
Pravda's masters of invective foamed at the mouth. In an editorial labeled "Buffoon in the Post of Premier," Premier Cajander, head of the Government of a "friendly" State, became a "clown, crowing rooster, squirming grass-snake, marionette; small beast of prey without sharp teeth and strength but having a cunning lust." The 60-year-old Premier, a schoolteacher's son, a forestry expert and middle-of-the-road Progressive in politics, was accused of "standing on his head, talking upside down, smearing crocodile tears over his dirty face." If Premier Cajander did not watch out, Pravda hinted...
...hater of Communists; nor do the Communist leaders, Mao, Chu and Chou Enlai, on all of whose heads he once set a price, trust him. This week, in a peculiarly Chinese maneuver, the Kuomintang's Central Executive Committee summoned Generalissimo Chiang as President of the Executive Yuan (Premier) again, reducing Premier H. H. Kung to vice president. Then it issued a four-point manifesto, the most emphatic point of which was a refusal to join any anti-Comintern agreement...
...Most significant straws in the wind blew down from Moscow. To the often-asked question of "How much of an ally is Soviet Russia of Nazi Germany?" the answer came last week. "No ally at all." Dictator Joseph Stalin and Premier-Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Molotov diplomatically kept mum on the subject, but the Kremlin's alter ego, the Communist International, was encouraged to handle the Nazis just about as roughly as French and British capitalists...
Inside the Embassy, recently accredited Soviet Ambassador Alexander A. Shkvartsev, onetime textile engineer and said to have been former private secretary of Premier-Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Molotov, was host at as brilliant a reception as ever celebrated on foreign soil an anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution, until very recently a black day on the Nazi calendar. Although the U. S. S. R. has never rated as a gourmet's paradise, diplomats the world over long ago learned to expect at Soviet Embassy parties as tasty spreads as ever graced a Tsar's table. In hungry Germany the Embassy...