Word: premiere
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Apprehensive lest they be made the victims of the fanciest sort of diplomatic feint, in London and Paris Lord Halifax and Premier Daladier sat tight, kept their guns trained on one enemy at a time-the Nazis. There would be plenty of time to see if an amazing double cross was the beginning of an entirely different crusade, a fantastically crooked diplomatic square dance with everybody suddenly changing partners...
...many things could happen. One thing that happened this week was a U. S. credit of $10,000,000 to Finland. But if no further military help was forthcoming, the Finns could hope only to sell their country for much Russian blood. This they were prepared to do. Cried Premier Risto Ryti in a nationwide broadcast: "The Finnish people at this moment are fully united, firm as steel and ready for the greatest sacrifices in behalf of their independence and their existence. ... If compelled to do so, we shall fight to the end-even after...
...from obstructing the Government, would be a wartime help. M. Blum disavowed politics, but refused to "accept the text of a law that would transfer totalitarian powers" to the Government. The Chamber tried to argue M. Daladier into submitting all decrees to Parliament within a month of issuance. The Premier would only promise to do so provided Parliament was in session. "I cannot continue my task unless the powers I asked are voted," he stubbornly insisted...
...picked as the next victim for Stalin's expansionist program, Foreign Minister Grigore Gafencu soft-soaped the Soviet Union: "We are convinced of the similarity existing between the Soviet's affirmed policy of peace and the Rumanian policy of independence." Earlier, George Tatarescu, the new pro-Ally Premier, made a bid for democratic sympathy when he promised to lift the hitherto strict Rumanian press censorship by allowing newspapers to give vent to "impartial criticism and the voicing of grievances against the Government...
These amazing statements indicated that Wang Ching-wei had begun to feel himself in a strong position to bargain. Powerful factions in Japan want him installed as head of the "Chinese Government" as soon as possible; last week the Foreign Office Spokesman Yakichiro Suma called on Premier Nobuyuki Abe to urge haste. But even Wang Ching-wei does not trust the Japanese, and he has consistently refused to take office except on four conditions: 1) conclusion of a water-tight peace treaty; 2) return to the Chinese of railroads, customs, native-owned factories; 3) partial withdrawal of Japanese troops...