Word: premiere
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Eire's leaders are: President, Douglas Hyde; Premier, Eamon de Valera; Defense Minister, Frank Aiken. Northern Ireland's: Governor, The Duke of Abercorn; Premier, Viscount Craigavon of Stormont...
...suffering and death. No nonsensical tirades could conceal the fact that 17 days after Germany announced Warsaw had fallen, citizens were dying in that city, bombs were still falling, shells were still shattering the suburbs. The radio announcer, awaiting a death as final as that of Premier Calinescu or General Fritsch, could expect no state funeral when he fell. There were none for the 1,000 civilians whose bodies, he reported, were lying in the streets. When the radio broke down under gunfire, he announced that it would soon be fixed, like a man repairing a puncture. Half the city...
...square-jawed French Premier returned hot from an inspection of French lines to broadcast: "I am not the leader of fanatic masses. I am charged with direction of a nation of free men. . . . They know why they are fighting. They are fighting because Germany has forced war on us, because for the last three years the devouring German ambition has not left Europe a single secure...
...grumbling about all this simply was out. And the French mood last week was such that any element which could possibly be called subversive was under pressure of cracking weight. Leon Blum, the Socialist leader who three years ago gave France a brief "New Deal" as Premier, wrote in his Le Populaire: "I appeal to the Communist chiefs, and I adjure them once more-let them cry out to the country that their pact with Moscow is broken, that Stalin's stab in the back has freed them from their pledges, that all is finished between them and Moscow...
From Moscow came word that Ambassador Shigenori Togo and Premier-Foreign Commissar Vyacheslaff Molotov had signed a truce. Outer Mongolia-Man-chukuo fighting would stop at once, border delimitations begin. With mutual kisses still wet on the unblushing cheeks of Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin, the world jumped, too soon, to the conclusion that Japan and Russia would also make strange love. The Japanese soon announced that a non-aggression pact between Japan and Russia was "not under consideration." The truce was simpler than that. Russia had some important business in Poland, Japan in China-business so urgent that fighting...