Word: premieres
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This week Chiang, while remaining Generalissimo, resigned as Premier in favor of his brother-in-law Dr. H. H. Kung, only recently returned from a European shopping tour for war supplies (TIME, Aug. 30). Premier Kung, a descendant of China's greatest sage Confucius (whose memorial tablet on the Classical Mountain Taishan was threatened by Japanese last week) is a Chinese conservative. However, his first act as Premier was to order freed from Chinese jails virtually all prisoners, and the majority of these happened to be Communists. Dispatches reported Chinese Communist leaders pressing Premier Kung and Generalissimo Chiang...
...badly beaten at the polls was King Carol's subservient Premier George Tatarescu that, even though-Rumanian law allows any Government that fills 40% of the seats in the lower chamber 75% of its voting power, he could not muster a majority. Last fortnight's elections showed that the three strongest parties in Rumania are: the National Liberal Party of beaten Tatarescu, the National Peasant Party of wild-eyed Julius Maniu, the Nazi-sup-ported Iron Guard of Zelea Codreanu. All three were objectionable last week: the National Liberal Party because they were damned as pro-French...
King Carol skipped all these, therefore, to pick as Premier white-haired, sleepy-eyed Octavian Goga of the little National Christian Party. As a poet Octavian Goga's reputation rests largely on a series of translations of Hungarian epics. As a politician he won the awed admiration of Balkans by conducting the most slickly corrupt elections ever seen as Minister of the Interior in 1926. But Goga exactly suited King Carol because, although violently antiSemitic, he is a good friend of Jewess Lupescu; although a Fascist, a bitter enemy of Iron Guardsman Codreanu. In jig time last week...
Immediately after this oath Premier Goga drove his Cabinet to church, to take another, even more solemnly, before the high altar...
While Germany, Italy, France and Britain eagerly waited to see in what direction the Goga Government's foreign policy was going to swing, one of its internal policies was quickly made clear. Symptomatic was the offering of special prayers for Premier Goga's aged right-hand man, 81-year-old Minister Without Portfolio Professor Alexander Cuza. Professor Cuza was not only founder of a predecessor of the present National Christian Party but is a famed oldtime Fascist and a vigorous Jew-baiter. Disdaining the Nazi swastika, Fascist Cuza has used a blue swastika as his party symbol (since...