Word: premiere
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Algeria), protectorates (like Tunis) or mandated territories (like Cameroon, formerly German). Nor was there any mention of the moribund but unrenounced treaty of mutual aid between France and Russia, always a sore point with Germany. However, three days later the Chamber of Deputies voted (315-to-241) confidence in Premier Daladier's foreign policies, of which the French-German "friendship"' declaration is a keystone. Strangely, it was from the Right, which for 15 years scorned any diplomatic appeasement toward pre-Nazi Germany, that M. Daladier drew his support. The Left, traditionally friendly to the German Republic, voted against...
...Most of the French demonstrators, and many of the Italians in private, refused to take seriously Premier Mussolini's "unofficial" campaign for French lands. In Paris some 6,000 non-serious Sorbonne students paraded the streets with placards demanding "We want Vesuvius! We want Venice! Ethiopia for the Negus!" (see map). At the quiet Alsatian border town of Strasbourg, students answered Italy's demands with shouts of "We want Sicily! We want Sardinia!" and in Algiers, capital of the French colony which adjoins Tunisia, hundreds of natives joined university students and chanted "Sicily and Sardinia for France-Italy...
...side of the border, French Premier Daladier announced that he plans to visit Tunisia and Corsica in January. French submarines and an airplane squadron, ostensibly on "routine duty," appeared in Tunis and the Tunisian armed forces of 25,000 men were held ready to man the Little Maginot Line, a string of small forts, pillboxes and airplane landing bases dotting the long Tunisian-Libyan border. To Paris French Resident-General Erik Labonne sent a report recommending strengthening of defenses, strict limitation of Italian immigration into Tunisia...
...Premier Edouard Daladier was put in power last April by the votes of the Popular Front (his own Radical Socialists, Socialists, Communists). The Premier's Popular Front support cracked after Munich. After he broke last fortnight's general strike, it washed out. Nevertheless, Edouard Daladier remained Premier of France. With Socialists and Communists voting solidly against him, with 28 members of his own party and a few others abstaining, but with almost the whole Right coming to his aid in the Chamber of Deputies, Premier Daladier won a respectable vote of confidence: 315 for, 241 against...
...easiest Parliamentary victory a French Premier ever won. Twice the all-day and all-night session seemed on the point of degenerating into a fist fight between Deputies. In one crisis the situation was saved when Edouard Herriot, the Chamber's President, put on his hat and walked out, thus automatically ending the session...