Word: premieres
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Profound Joy." Premier Chautemps and Foreign Minister Delbos wore the most satisfied smiles imaginable as they arrived in Paris, greeted at the station by cheering Socialist and Radical Socialist adherents. "On every subject we have been able to meet the English!" was beaming Premier Chautemps' way of summing up. "It is with profound joy that I am able to say that on all topics we found ourselves in complete agreement...
Among some 1,300 victims have been the President and Premier of two Union Republics, both suicides; a most illustrious Marshal of the Red Army and seven of his Generals, all shot; the onetime Chief of the Soviet Munitions Trust, shot; even the Editor of the Soviet State's own newsorgan Izvestia, who was arrested. In Russia, where it is impossible to throw up one's job and flee, since the greater part of the Soviet frontier is sealed with barbed wire and guarded day and night, the number of suicides among Russians of consequence is said...
...Star-hemberg-whose ancestors helped save Austria from the Turks in 1693-was not only Vice-Chancellor of Austria but favored to become Regent. He had run out of money of his own to pay his immense private army, the Heimwehr, but was receiving more cash regularly from Premier Mussolini. Suddenly the Prince proceeded to make almost as much of a mess as did Edward VIII...
Gigantic in stature and ugly as a gargoyle, Nicholas Titulescu, many times Foreign Minister of Rumania, came home to Bucharest last week from what he could call without exaggeration "the jaws of Death." Last year M. Titulescu was abroad, representing Rumania as Foreign Minister, when King Carol and Premier George Tatarescu put their heads together. The Premier handed His Majesty the Cabinet's resignation, and the Cabinet was then immediately reformed under Premier Tatarescu-without Foreign Minister Titulescu. At about the same time M. Titulescu began feeling queer, and soon eight doctors were working frantically at St. Moritz...
They succeeded only after the most desperate measures, including three blood transfusions (TIME, Sept. 28, 1936, et ante). Since then Statesman Titulescu has kept clear of Rumania while he convalesced. Last spring he was lunched in Paris by Socialist Premier Blum, who is now Vice Premier, and French Foreign Minister Yvon Delbos. Later, stopping at the Ritz in London, he had long talks with pro-French British bigwigs such as Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, Sir Robert Vansittart, Winston Churchill and Lloyd George. Last week, 5,000 Rumanians jampacked Bucharest's dingy railway station, flaunted banners reading "Long Live Titulescu...