Word: premiere
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Premier and Vice Premier Léon Blum have wished for weeks that the Cabinet might fall, so that it could be reconstructed as a "National Government" without the Communists, and Socialist Blum's personal newsorgan, Le Populaire, has been rebuking Stalin harshly about the Moscow trials. When the Communists still insisted upon being friendly last week, Premier Chautemps suddenly talked of asking for powers so sweeping that no Cabinet could have got them and, when leaders of the Popular Front (Communists, Socialists, Radical Socialists) demurred, he claimed in the Chamber that without these powers he could not raise...
Camille Chautemps said, "I hope to get in a little skiing in Switzerland, but hélas for the moment the President has asked me to remain here," thus coyly suggesting he may soon again be Premier...
Meanwhile Léon Blum, regarded as the "logical" Premier-designate, since his Socialist Party is at the centre of the existing Left majority in the Chamber, indulged in day after day of desultory bargaining with all parties. Juridical experts of the French Foreign Office contributed to Paris' somewhat fantastic calm by gravely declaring that juridically there was nothing wrong about the German Army's entering Austria at the "invitation" of the Austrian Government. This was, they said, no violation of international law and it was "not invasion"-an opinion which sounded like the Wilhelmstrasse but was actually...
...party of Communist cameramen swept into court with batteries of klieg lights for the kill. Movie cameras recorded that Communist Alexei Rykov, who succeeded Nikolai Lenin as Soviet Premier (1924), wept in the dock of 21 prisoners as he awaited death, while the great Communist ideologist and "Heir of Lenin," Nikolai Bukharin, onetime editor of official Izvestia, stared dry-eyed at the floor. The, 21 did not know that, so far as could be ascertained last week, the only daily or weekly papers in the world whose editors expressed the opinion that justice was being done in Moscow were exclusively...
...keep democratic Frenchmen and Britons cheering for him, was King Alexander of Yugoslavia, assassinated at Marseille (TIME, Oct. 22, 1934). Since his death, Yugoslavia has followed an exactly opposite foreign policy of courting the favor of authoritarian states -while not actually flouting France or Britain. Last week Premier Milan Stoyadinovich was so pleased with the way his country's foreign policy was shaping that he crowed in Parliament...