Word: premiered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...urged the Government to copy Herr Hitler's tactics and assume a protectorate over Danzig. Since the Führer saw fit to denounce the Polish-German Treaty in a public speech, the Polish Government decided to answer him in kind. This week Foreign Minister Josef Beck and Premier Felicjan Slawoj-Sklad-kowski are to go before the Polish Parliament and say their say about Herr Hitler. An unnamed spokesman for the British Cabinet declared: "If Poland fights, Britain and France will fight...
...even the peace-loving Socialists raised any great fuss. And from France, a onetime Premier, Socialist Léon Blum, even spoke sharply against Labor's opposition to such mild conscription. Said he of British Labor's distaste for conscription: "I am myself staggered and I think that French opinion generally is staggered...
Last week Premier Edouard Daladier struck terror into the hearts of foreign-subsidized journalists of both Left and Right. Using his wide decree powers, the Premier's Government published a law which: 1) prohibited defamation or slander promoting hatred "against any group of persons belonging to any particular race or religion"-i.e., against the Jews, a specialty of the Reich-subsidized press; 2) made it unlawful to receive from foreign countries funds for "antinational propaganda"; 3) provided that any funds received for publicity campaigns, directly or indirectly, must be reported in eight days...
Urbane Parisians, who have long 'done most of their newspaper reading between the lines, suspected last week that the Rome-Berlin newspapers would be made to behave rather than be suppressed, but that before long the Rightist Premier may suppress outright the Communist dailies L'Humanite and Ce Soir...
...Yugoslavia until 15-year-old King Peter comes of age, has lately been doing much thinking about Croat grievances, with an eye to settling them before Messrs. Hitler and Mussolini make a big gesture of stepping in and doing it for him. Last February conciliatory Dragisha Cvetkovitch replaced unpopular Premier Milan Stoyadinovitch and promptly began to negotiate with old Dr. Matchek for the settlement of the Croat-Serb dispute. Last week Serbs and Croats celebrated what they considered the resolution of the Croat problem...