Word: premiere
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Early this week Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain of Britain and Premier Edouard Daladier of France announced that their Governments were simultaneously recognizing the regime of Generalissimo Francisco Franco of Spain and withdrawing recognition from the Loyalist Government of Premier Dr. Juan Negrin...
Count Teleki retained the former Premier's Cabinet intact, that he announced that the Imredy racial laws and land reform schemes would not be scrapped. But the Jewish legislation was expected to be modified in application if not on the statute books and land reform would probably be slowed up. Weak Hungary could not afford to slap the Nazis directly in the face by abandoning the bills. The new Government was expected outwardly to comply with Nazi wishes, but at the same time quietly to sabotage the laws' effectiveness...
...Chungking, China's capital in the far west, the New Life Movement marked the day with a traditional fair, suitably modified for a China at war. The most patronized concession: a "beat the Japanese" booth where patriotic Chinese could throw balls at caricatures of such Japanese worthies as Premier Baron Kiichiro Hiranuma, his predecessor, Prince Fumimaro Konoye, Minister for War Lieut. General Seishiro Itagaki and Minister for Foreign Affairs Hachiro Arita...
...Poland in his proposals for European peace. When, at the end of the War, the Allies asked Paderewski to organize a stable Polish government, the pianist took up politics in earnest. In a vote like a crashing chord the Polish Parliament voted their confidence in him as their first Premier. On June 28, 1919, at Versailles, he got Poland back its official place on the map of Europe...
Then Politician Paderewski's troubles began. "Piano playing," he once remarked, "is more difficult than statesmanship." But as a practical Premier, Paderewski was a first-rate pianist. He let correspondence pile up, let the telephone ring itself hoarse. In the rough & tumble of practical politics, he was a pushover for Poland's tough, military Marshal Pilsudski. In December 1919, Paderewski resigned, left Poland and politics to brood alone at his estate in Morges, Switzerland...