Word: premieres
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rumor was the fact that Mme Chiang, her sister Mme H. H. Kung, wife of China's Premier, and their brother T. V. Soong, Big Banker to the Chinese Government were in Hong Kong. That city is the traditional refuge of Chinese who have found China somewhat too hot for them, are waiting to see if it gets so hot they must go on to Europe or America. At present however, it is also the vital point on the diplomatic and military line of supply which the Chinese Government still has with the rest of the world...
...conference in Budapest, symbolic of the other Fascist moves last week, went Premier Mussolini's son-in-law, Italian Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano; keen, Jesuit-trained Chancellor Dr. Kurt Schuschnigg of Austria; and, as host, Hungarian Foreign Minister Kalman de Kanya. Unfortunately for them, Austria and Hungary are no longer so important to Italy as they seemed when they were the only sizable satellites II Duce could get to revolve around Rome. In recent months Yugoslavia has come under strong Italian influence (TiME, Dec. 20 et ante) and Germany, the planet at the other end of the self...
...Indications that Yugoslavia is now tempted to edge away from the constellation of Little Entente satellites of France (Czechoslovakia, Rumania & Yugoslavia), and draw near the Protocol States-which Germany may soon join-were furnished last week by Yugoslav Premier Milan Stoyadinovich who turned up in Berlin the day after Colonel Beck. "We are," declared Stoyadinovich, "aware that Germany plays a decisive role in the Danube basin and that no solution of the so-called Danube problem can be achieved without German co-operation...
...still nominally her ally, "dominant" in the Danube basin. The recent tour of Danube states and Poland by French Foreign Minister Yvon Delbos (TIME, Dec. 20, et seq.) was followed immediately by the setting up in Rumania of a pro-Nazi and anti-Semitic regime unfriendly to France. When Premier Stoyadinovich sounded off, the Delbos journey appeared to have been almost a total loss. However, M. Delbos' worries were at the moment closer home. His Government had fallen...
...Protestants of Northern Ireland, this authority seems not only insufficient but provocative. They were boiling mad last week, and Viscount Craigavon, their Premier, was playing host in Belfast to new United Kingdom's Secretary of State for War Leslie Hore-Belisha. If there should be fighting as a result of the new Constitution, Secretary Hore-Belisha will have well surveyed the Irish ground...