Word: premiere
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fortnight ago Mustafa El Nahas Pasha, leader of Egypt's greatest party, the Wafd, lost his job as Premier. Last week, however, he had the laugh on his successor, Mahommed Mahmoud Pasha. Nearly three months ago one of Mahmoud's Greenshirts attempted to shoot Nahas in the street. When the young zealot, Abd El Kadar, was arraigned in court, Nahas instead of demanding the extreme penalty contemptuously asked damages of one piastre (5?). Lest the Wafd make too much capital of this disdain. Premier Mahmoud's Government hastily held Abd El Kadar for criminal trial...
Last week's Jew-baiting by the new Rumanian Government of Premier Octavian Goga...
...visit that he was careful to call "unofficial," U. S. Minister Franklin Mott Gunther reminded Premier Goga of the adverse U. S. reaction to the anti-Semitism of Adolf Hitler. With greater finesse Soviet Ambassador Mikhail Ostrovsky informed the Rumanian Foreign Office that his presence was "no longer useful," and he wished to start home to Moscow within ten days...
...both these protests Premier Goga had an answer. Under the nose of the U. S. Minister he waved a sheaf of protests cabled by U. S. Jewish organizations. "These," he cried, "are merely impudent!" To Mr. Ostrovsky, the Foreign Office replied with a public announcement: "The Rumanian Government would in no way object to the departure of the Soviet Ambassador at an even earlier date...
...recent months French political police have discovered grave armed plots against the State. But the Popular Front Cabinet of Premier Camille Chautemps, supported by a coalition of Communists, Socialists and Radical Socialists, kept the French public in the dark. A score of Rightists, few prominent, were arrested, but their loud demands to be accused of treason and given their day in court were ignored. Fortnight ago, with the evident consent of the General Staff, a general on active duty declared that there was to have been a Communist coup d'etat on November 16, but that word...