Word: premiere
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which supply the capital. Bands of Mobile Guards and policemen began to patrol the Paris streets. An infantry company clumped to the City Hall, nine truckloads of troops surrounded the Chamber of Deputies building. Other patrols stacked arms on important street corners and public squares. The authority of the Premier of France to govern by decree power granted him by Parliament was about to be disputed in a 24-hour general strike called by the French Confederation of Labor. The Republic's troops were posted to see that the Premier's authority was upheld...
...Premier Edouard Daladier denounced the strike as "political," a test not only of his administration but of the French democracy's ability to withstand minority pressure in a crisis. He believed he could beat the strike and maintain his Government's prestige if he could maintain the public services, so he invoked a statute on the books since July and militarized all transport, communications, war industries and the Government service. He also served notice that workers who obeyed Leon Jouhaux's orders to report for work in military plants and then "fold arms" would be jailed...
Individual employers dismissed 30,000 strikers next day. Some 700,000 others were temporarily locked out. But the Daladier Government announced a policy of "appeasement," discouraged reprisals. However, the Premier immediately crossed Leader Jouhaux's name from the directorate of the Bank of France and several railway union leaders were booted from the National Railway Board. This was followed by a flurry of sympathy strikes. At Le Havre the 1,500 crew members of the Normandie were discharged when they refused to sail the liner out of port on schedule. Reservations on the Normandie, including that of Anthony Eden...
Emerging from his trial as the strongest Premier France has had since Pierre Laval, Edouard Daladier called Parliament to sit this week, confident that the Centre and Right would respond to any reasonable demands he might make to implement his "Three Year Plan" of internal and external bulwarking. And to the French people he broadcast: "What triumphed today was the principle of the Republic itself-its respect for law, its respect for the right to work and its respect for the nation. The French people showed that they realized that their liberties were not threatened by the Government...
Later in the evening Van Zeeland lectured at Ford Hall in Boston. Van Zeeland has received a Master of Arts degree at Princeton, where he studied as a Follow on the exchange scholarship fund founded by the Belgian Relief Commission after the World War. Although he served as premier during the perilous times from 1935 to 1937, Van Zeeland looks incredibly young...