Word: premiere
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...crisp, determined, confident fashion, Premier Edouard Daladier took his new Cabinet of moderate Left statesmen before Parliament last week, asked a free hand to rule by decree until July 31. This was asking much more than ousted Socialist Premier Léon Blum was refused fortnight ago when his Popular Front Cabinet cracked up. The new Premier was banking last week on a growing realization that the majority of public opinion in France has shifted from the Left part way to the Centre. The disgruntled Left, conscious of their weakened position but eager that it should receive no advertisement last...
...ministerial declaration-the first in many years to omit mention of the League of Nations-was not even debated, an unprecedented abstention from the time-honored French pastime of heckling every Premier. Apparently the Deputies and Senators believed Edouard Daladier when he told them that French institutions were menaced by nationwide strikes as grave as those in Italy in 1922-to which the answer was Italian Fascism. The moderate Premier, with his reputation for courage and firmness, quietly threw such a scare into even the Communists that their leaders last week began offering cooperation in the settlement of sit-down...
After receiving full powers, Premier Daladier at once convened the "Inner Cabinet," which he announced fortnight ago would be the G. H. Q. of his "Cabinet of Defense." Few hours afterward a French Cabinet, for the first time, had issued an ultimatum to Labor that a "humane evacuation" of the sit-down strikers by this week at the latest was desired. This evacuation would be achieved "for the common good," by whatever methods might prove necessary, M. Pierre Jacomet was appointed the Cabinet's special strike arbiter, and within 24 hours 25,000 sit-downers in Government aviation factories...
Paradoxically, two of the most uncompromisingly anti-Communist members of the new French Cabinet, Paul Reynaud and Georges Mandel, were for immediate resumption of those cordial French relations with Joseph Stalin personally which were never so close as when the Premier of France was Conservative Pierre Laval, one of the few foreign statesmen ever entertained by the Kremlin Dictator. With a view to aiding France to gain strength as fast as possible in rivalry with Italy and Germany, the assistance of the World's No. 1 Communist is again wanted by Paris...
...Premier Daladier and M. Bonnet, great as their misgivings about the Führer and Il Duce are, were not wasting anytime last week getting in on something similar to the Chamberlain-Mussolini Deal (see p. 16). The French Embassy in Rome, journalists learned in Paris, will attempt to get a Daladier-Mussolini Deal along these lines: 1) Italy and France would agree to halt radio propaganda against each other now being broadcast to the peoples of the Near East and North Africa; 2) the Addis...