Word: premiere
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile large-eared, sharp-featured President Manuel L. Quezon of the Philippine Commonwealth journeyed to Tokyo on a "recreational" visit. His recreation included serious talks with Japanese Foreign Minister General Kazushige Ugaki, a dinner attended by Premier Prince Fumimaro Konoye. This led correspondents to cable that the Philippine President was angling for assurances from these high Japanese officials that Japan had no designs on the islands when the Philippines obtain their independence from the U. S. in November 1945, as now scheduled. The U. S. Philippine Ordinance expressly forbids the Filipinos any direct participation in foreign affairs until...
Thousands of blackshirted Fascists and cheering farmers tramped into a freshly cut wheat field near Aprilia one day last week to hear Premier Benito Mussolini officially open Italy's harvest season. Bustling up to Aprilia, one of the towns built on land reclaimed from the Pontine Marshes, in his automobile, Il Duce stripped to the waist, clambered atop a threshing machine. There he proceeded to blast away at early-spring predictions by observers in the U. S., Britain and France that Italy's vital wheat crop would fall far below normal this year. Folding his brawny arms across...
France's unsentimental penologists have remained singularly unimpressed by these horror stories. Two years ago, however, France's Popular Front Government started to do something about the penal colony. Last week Premier Edouard Daladier by decree prescribed a slow death for it. No more prisoners are to be sent there, but on the other hand, none of the 5,000 there now will be repatriated. Since the convicts die at the rate of about 500 a year, it will take about ten years to liquidate the penal colony...
...open sore if not outright scandal that was long French Guiana made little impression on successive French governments until Léon Blum became Premier. Then the penal colony was described as a failure. The escaped convicts were said to reflect on Frenchmen everywhere. Explains the bill finally adopted: "Such a situation cannot be prolonged without doing injury to the prestige of France...
...Ankara, Turkey's capital, bespectacled, chubby, methodical Premier Jelal Bayar shouted to the one-party Grand National Assembly that Hatay-the name for the Sanjak affected by the Turks after the Hittite regime that ruled there over 3,000 years ago-"must be Turkish-ruled." In Syria's capital, Damascus, Arab leaders called for a policy of noncooperation with France. Throughout much of the Arab world - from Asia Minor to Aden, from Tigris to Nile - there was dismay over this latest of a long list of betrayals by the Big Powers. For Turkey, former master of the Arabs...