Word: premieres
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Finance Minister, Socialist Premier Blum was uneasily aware that he is the worst possible choice, from the viewpoint of those French and British capitalists from whom France must try to keep on borrowing at the rate of over 30,000,000,000 francs per year, to keep her armament program going. On the other hand, a point in the Cabinet's favor is that pathetic, inexperienced Yvon Delbos is no longer Foreign Minister, has been replaced by veteran Joseph Paul-Boncour, everlasting French delegate to the League of Nations. Like his great friend Lord Perth, who as Sir Eric...
...friendship with the French Republic by treaty, last week's Moscow proposals for an anti-Fascist conference were "accepted in principle" by Paul-Boncour. To French journalists he made it unmistakable that Paris will not act in the matter without London, which had already reacted negatively. When Premier Juan Negrin of desperate Leftist Spain went flying to Paris and begged Messrs. Blum & Paul-Boncour for aid last week he was cold-shouldered...
...Diet has been in efforts to find out whether His Imperial Majesty's Government considers that Japan today is at war-for Japan has not declared war on any country-and therefore whether or not the National Mobilization Bill would be operative as soon as passed. Premier Prince Konoye, after keeping away from as many sessions as he could on the plea that he was "sick," was finally haggled into saying that the National Mobilization Bill, even if passed, would not immediately become effective, would be administered by a commission on which would sit, promised the Premier, some members...
...Beatitude Miron Cristea, snowy-bearded Patriarch of Rumania's 13,000,000 Orthodox Christians and present Premier of the Government of its 19,000,000 people, last August delivered himself of an interpretation of Christian doctrine. In an attack upon Rumanian Jews, front-paged in his nation's press, he declared: "The duty of a Christian is to love himself first and to see that his needs are satisfied. Only then can he help his neighbor. . . . Why should we not get rid of these parasites [Jews] who suck Rumanian Christian blood? It is logical and holy to react...
...American Committee on Rights of Religious Minorities, a 20-year-old body to which belong such people as Nicholas Murray Butler, Herbert Hoover, Senator Arthur Capper, did not forget His Beatitude's words when he became Premier last month (TIME, Feb. 28). To Patriarch Cristea the Committee's Chairman John Howland Lathrop wrote urging that, for the sake of the Christian church throughout the world, he moderate his stand. Last week, to the great surprise and pleasure of Jews in Rumania and abroad, the Patriarch...