Word: premiere
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Reynaud helped restore order when he was Minister of the Colonies (TIME, Nov. 2, 1931). Aged 58, he looks younger, annoys the earnest Left with his barbed Gallic wit, his habitually ironic mien. The Moderate Left acknowledged him the leading exponent of the moderate Right. Excepting Bonnet, no Premier cared to form a Cabinet without him, and because the Communists opposed him, it seemed that no Cabinet could be formed with...
Camille Chautemps, France's moderate and middle-class Premier, had struggled for months with his Communist and Socialist bedfellows to give France a "pause" from the New Deal measures inaugurated 19 months ago under France's first Socialist Premier, Leon Blum. Early this winter the "pause" was giving French businessmen a moderate return of confidence, and the treasury situation was improving under Finance Minister Georges Bonnet although the franc was weak. In the last few weeks, this recovery was halted by a new wave of strikes...
...Paris last week President C. J. Gignoux of the French Employers' Association was taunted with cries of "Gig-noux to the gallows!" In the Chamber soon afterward Premier Chautemps, who had been having trouble with both Capital's Gignoux and Leon Jouhaux, leader of some 5,000,000 French trade unionists, was denounced by Comrade Arthur Ramette, Communist leader. "If you want your liberty,-I will give it to you!" cried the Premier, weary after weeks of strife. "I will not let the Communists spit in my face...
...that point, Vice Premier Leon Blum's Socialists asked time out to consider whether they would stick with the Communists or with the moderate, misnamed Radical Socialist Party of Chautemps, the second largest party in the Chamber. Out of the Socialist huddle came Blum to hand Chautemps his own resignation and that of the other eight Socialist ministers. This automatically wrecked the Cabinet. The hour was 4:30 a. m. Premier Chautemps bundled his Cabinet into a motorcade which brought them before cockcrow to hand all their resignations to sad-eyed President Albert Lebrun. "Blum will be the next...
...week's end, sleepless and haggard, President Lebrun sent once more for Camille Chautemps, asked him to try to form a Cabinet. "We have been around in a circle," declared the Premier-Designate with an exhausted attempt at humor, "and we are back where we started...