Word: premiere
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Those guns could be supplied only from abroad. At week's end the brightest spot on the Loyalist horizon was Paris. There the executive committee of Premier Edouard Daladier's Radical Socialist Party-without whose support he cannot remain in power-passed with only one dissenting vote a resolution asking a curb on Italian aid for Generalissimo Franco. The French General Staff has long viewed with misgivings the establishment of a Fascist power on France's southern frontier. There were signs that to "neutralize' Italian aid to Franco the French might unseal the Spanish frontier...
Coming Crisis. This week Father Augustin Volosin, Premier of Carpatho-Ukraine said in Prague: "Of course we Ukrainians feel that a nation like ours . . . must some day . . . form its own State,but . . . Carpatho-Ukraine cannot work for the creation of a Great Ukraine. Our little country is far too small...
...conscience and his skin, he was getting out. Prince Fumimaro Konoye, golf-playing descendant of a long line of courtiers, has from the beginning disliked his job. For 19 months he and other moderates in his Cabinet have conducted a gallant, ineffective rearguard action against army-dominated colleagues. Premier Prince Konoye quit, so did Finance Minister Ikeda...
...bureaucrat from way back, the new premier is not popular, has never held an elective office. His entire official career has been spent in the Department of Justice and the Privy Council. Both these institutions are surrounded by a forbidding wall of secrecy, are regarded by liberal Japanese as respectively the dungeon and citadel of reaction...
...resignation, easy-going Premier Prince Konoye has thus smartly passed on to the political leader of the group responsible for pushing Japan into her continental adventure, the responsibility for pulling her through. Also up to the new Premier is the difficult task of finding some formula for cooperation between the army and private capital, in the search for both victory and profits in China...