Word: premieres
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chiang had meanwhile left Nanking, which advancing Japanese forces were rapidly approaching, and arrived at the mountain resort Kuling. There German Ambassador Dr. Oskar Trautmann offered Berlin's services a.s a mediator between China and Japan, apparently was rebuffed. The Soviet Embassy reportedly sent an attache to urge Premier Chiang to join China's Kuomintang Party to the Communist International and appoint Chinese Communist General Chu Teh to high command in the Chinese Army. The Generalissimo was further harassed by news from Hankow that leading Kuomintang Politician Wang Ching-wei had manifestoed to the Chinese Government...
...help it, and overseas territories are to him outlandish pawns, to be played coldly in diplomacy's great game. Last week M. Alexis Léger, much to his distaste, was obliged to quit his beloved Paris for a few days in order to coach Premier Camille Chautemps and Foreign Minister Yvon Delbos at London in the opening hands of a game for breathtakingly high stakes. Green as any card table was the big board at No. 10 Downing Street, and German diplomatic cards were dealt out by Viscount Halifax. Quietly, this lean, cadaverous British statesman laid the secret...
...Russia's principal railway from every point of view, especially the strategic, is the Trans-Siberian. Last week Dictator Joseph Stalin and Premier Vyacheslav Molotov were announced recently to have issued a joint order demanding that officials of the Trans-Siberian "restore it to efficient operation." Stalin & Molotov mentioned that "76 railway cars loaded with metal have been standing on sidings at Khabarovsk for six months." Their order added: "Eliminate traffic jams and defective locomotives...
...congratulations of state officials, municipal leaders, foreign envoys and friends. At the concert all eyes were upon his rugged figure as he sat, with his small, dapper wife, between the President and the Field Marshal. Though urged, he declined to make a speech. Even when Finland's Premier, Dr. Kivimaki, addressing the great audience, presented him with a laurel wreath symbolic of an entire nation's debt, he remained firmly and shyly silent. It was only later, at a banquet given by intimate friends, that he tried to express his gratitude. As he stood up, however, emotion overcame...
...Neither Premier Mussolini nor Fascist book censors saw anything amiss with Flying Over Ethiopian Mountain Ranges by Vittorio Mussolini, a 150-page book published last week in Rome. "My purpose is to have Italian youth learn from a young man," wrote Author Vittorio, ''what it feels like to be fighting a war when only 20 years of age, and to be above war's sorrows, seeing only its beauties...