Word: premiere
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...process by which Austrians began to breathe easier this week was progressive, .logical. They learned that Premier Mussolini, who is not anxious to have Germany swarm into Austria and thus jostle Italy, had inspired Dr. Schuschnigg's hurried visit to Herr Hitler. They reflected that in Jesuit-trained, rock-pious and astute Dr. Schuschnigg they have a Chancellor who could and would stand up persuasively to potent, mystic, unstable Dictator Hitler. News from London seemed to indicate chances brightening for a British-German-French-Italian understanding to uphold territorial Europe's status quo. Finally the Austrian people this...
...suddenly made himself as much a Dictator as was his brother-in-law, the late King Alexander of Yugoslavia, assassinated at Marseille (TIME. Oct. 15, 1934, et seq.). Carol II has long hankered after the absolutism of his Hohenzollern kinsman Wilhelm II. Last week's crisis broke after Premier Octavian Goga received two heavy blows: 1) his entire slate of anti-Semitic decrees was declared unconstitutional; and 2) a brawl in which Goga's own political rowdies, "The Lance Bearers," killed two members of the Nazi-Fascist Iron Guard caused anti-Semite Goga to be deserted by this...
...master mind, but His Majesty saw clearly enough that Octavian Goga could no longer conceivably win the Rumanian election scheduled for March. Everyone else in Rumania saw this too, and although only a few thought the King had "planned it that way," none was surprised when Carol II dismissed Premier Goga with curt, characteristic Balkan ruthlessness, abruptly snapping: "I want your resignation...
...local military commanders, and ordered all Rumanian citizens having arms or ammunitions to surrender them to His Majesty's Government. In morning papers, Rumanians read that shortly before dawn the Orthodox Church's venerable Patriarch Miron Cristea, 69, had been sworn in by King Carol, 44, as Premier of what His Majesty was pleased to call a "National Concentration Government...
...Government of Rumania, headed by Premier Octavian Goga, resembles German fascism in its (1 antiSemitism, 2 abolition of the Monarchy, 3 abolition of all labor unions, 4 abolition of all but one political party, 5 active support of General Franco in Spain...