Word: premieres
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...British Ambassador Sir Nevile Henderson, who brought the papers personally from London. This week the Führer's reply will be taken to London by the new German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop. The French Ambassador was messenger boy in London last week for Premier Chautemps. From London this week British Ambassador Lord Perth, onetime Secretary General of the League of Nations, hurried to Premier Mussolini...
Japanese G. H. Q. at Shanghai admitted Chinese guerilla forces had retaken several towns just north of Nanking. This week in Tokyo a deputy asked Premier Prince Konoye if Japan is reasonably sure to have won the war before 1940, when she is to be host to the Olympics. "I am unable to say definitely," hedged the Premier. "We must plan for the worst. The immediate problem is to deliver a final blow to China and end the leadership of Chiang Kai-shek...
Steadily maintaining that "nothing that has been said on behalf of the Italian Government would justify anybody in saying that they have used threats," Neville Chamberlain explained that last year he "put aside ordinary diplomatic formalities" and began exchanging personal communications with Premier Mussolini. These have now led to "the Italian Government's acceptance of the British Formula concerning the withdrawal of foreign volunteers" from Spain. Under this formula the Prime Minister continued: "When a certain proportion of volunteers on both sides have been withdrawn, there should be granted belligerent rights [to Rightists and Leftists alike...
...Premier Camille Chautemps, an experienced juggler of French political groups, could not manage last week to keep the Communist, Socialist and moderate Left supporters of his Cabinet from holding their noses. But while they were doing so. he got them to swallow the general principle of British-German-French-Italian negotiation for a Four-Power Pact, envisioned by the British Prime Minister . The swallowing occurred at a session of the Chamber of Deputies which upheld Premier Chautemps and Foreign Minister Yvon Delbos...
Ding, ding, ding, rings the bell. Thump, thump, thump, starts the machine: PARIS-PREMIER BOUILLABAISSE AND HIS CABINET DROVE THIS EVENING IN A POURING RAIN TO THE ELYSEE PALACE TO PRESENT THEIR RESIGNATIONS TO PRESIDENT...