Word: premiere
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shirted Fascists ordered to gather before the Palazzo Venezia, Il Duce struck his usual defiant pose on the balcony, shouted: "The splendid victory of Barcelona is another chapter in the new Europe we are creating. General Franco's magnificent troops and our fearless legionnaires not only have beaten [Premier Dr. Juan] Negrin's government, but many others of our enemies are now biting the dust. Their motto was 'No pasarán,' but we did pass and I tell you we will continue...
...Paris, just a few hours later, Premier Daladier wound up in the Chamber of Deputies a long foreign policy debate which had hinged on the Spanish problem. Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet had warned that a "question of force" might soon arise. M. Daladier said that events were "racing toward a climax," that the "hour of peril" was approaching. But the debate showed such a fatal division of opinion on exactly what constituted a peril that France seemed paralyzed...
Despite the clamor, Premier Edouard Daladier's Cabinet decided to adhere to strict nonintervention, keep the border sealed, let the Spanish Loyalists sink or swim on their own. All week their boat sank lower in the water. An army man himself, for nearly three years Minister of National Defense (a job he still holds as Premier). M. Daladier could scarcely have failed to realize the dangers of letting a puppet of Italy and Germany take over all Spain. It was reported that he wanted to help the Loyalists, but French diplomacy was again stymied, as it had been when...
...Former Premier Leon Blum, originator of nonintervention, denounced his own handiwork in a leisurely Chamber debate, declared that non-intervention should be "reciprocal." wrote in his newsorgan, Le Populaire, that it was at present "inadmissible and intolerable." Said Deputy Alfred Margaine, member of Premier Daladier's own Radical Socialist Party: "We have been duped in the policy of nonintervention...
Opposed to the pro-intervention speakers was onetime Premier Pierre Etienne Flandin, who has made no secret of his fondness for Herr Hitler. He moralized: "The French Government should be able to say to the Spanish people, once the war is ended, 'I have no Spanish blood on my hands...