Word: premiere
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meantime, the Czech crisis and the ominous maneuvers of 1,300,000 German soldiers beyond the French frontier, placed French Communists and Socialists in a corner. Premier Daladier's proposal to emasculate the 40-hour law was a slap in their face but they dared not set out to wreck his Cabinet...
With the French Chamber not due to reconvene until November, Premier Edouard Daladier last week announced that he would call an extraordinary session at "a fairly early date." If the pugnacious Premier does so, then, as Chicago Daily News's Edgar Ansel Mowrer cabled last week: "Everything seems to be set for one of the finest political battles France has witnessed, even in these eventful years. . . . By denouncing the 40-hour law (TIME, Aug. 29), without asking any so-called equivalent sacrifices from French capitalists, Premier Daladier smashes the Popular Front or what was left...
Actually, the Premier had not called for outright repeal. What M. Daladier demanded fortnight ago and would ask the Chamber, if summoned, to approve, is supplemental legislation or administrative action to draw the sting of the 40-hour law. He was last week in such a position as Franklin Roosevelt might be, were the U. S. President to put Recovery ahead of Reform instead of Reform ahead of Recovery. Premier Daladier calculated that with living costs rising, millions of French workers would rather increase their earnings by working 48 hours (with 10% overtime after 40 hours as offered...
...that France is lost if she does not work normally," reiterated Premier Daladier last week as he reminded French Communists that in Russia there is no 40-hour week and Soviet workers toil much longer hours...
...Hitler and Horthy rolled by special trains across Germany to Berlin, where they were welcomed on a gayly decorated station platform by No. 2 Nazi Göring and No. 3 Nazi Goebbels. The colossal German military display which followed was even bigger than that staged last year for Premier Mussolini. In the Berlin suburb of Charlottenburg 1,100 armored cars and tanks, 318 motorcycles, 300 heavy guns, 750 cavalrymen, 61,000 infantrymen passed before Regent Horthy in just over two hours' time...