Word: premieres
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...crowded and at times choked with tractors dragging heavy artillery, huge motor trucks wallowing forward with munitions, pack trains of heavily-loaded beasts and column after column of Chinese soldiers slogging and sloshing forward. By Tuesday morning the offensive had yet to begin, and Chinese learned that the Premier had been obliged on Sunday to hand down sentences of death to officers guilty of "cowardice and military blunders" and "failure to offer heroic resistance." Two more "high Chinese Army officers" were announced to have been executed on Double-Ten, others "severely punished...
Reason: Turks suddenly found themselves last week with a new Premier, former Economics Minister Jelal Bayar, replacing famed General Ismet Inönü who has been Premier almost as long as KamĊl Atatürk has been Dictator (15 years). It was as if Dictator Hitler had suddenly replaced Four-Year-Plan Director General Goring by Dr. Hjalmar Schacht (see col. 2). Moreover, Renovator KamĊl Atatürk brusquely called back last week from the League of Nations session famed Turkish Foreign Minister Dr. Tewfik Rushtu Aras, a onetime obstetrician who was present...
...recall of Turkey's Foreign Minister suggested a likely explanation for the wrath of Turkey's Dictator and the fall of Turkey's Premier. At the Nyon Conference recently myopic Dr. Tewfik Rushtu Aras was cajoled by Soviet Foreign Commissar Maxim Litvinoff into agreeing that British and French ships assigned to patrol the seas around Turkey for "pirates" (TIME, Sept. 27) should be permitted to base their operations in Turkish ports. Next thing Dr. Aras knew Turkey had failed at Geneva, even with the aid of Comrade Litvinoff, to be re-elected to the League Council...
...Economics Ministry was still physically occupied by Nazi adherents of Prussian Premier Hermann Wilhelm Goring who simply moved in fortnight ago, brusquely announcing: "Any further Government role by Dr. Schacht-even as Acting Minister of Economics-is out of the question!" Last week at the Ministry for Propaganda and National Enlightenment, headed by Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels, a bitter rival of General Goring, word was put about that "Hitler has turned down the draft text of a 'hold for release' press announcement of Dr. Schacht's resignation on the ground that nothing has been decided...
Engaged. Crown Prince Paul of Greece, 35, younger brother of King George; to Princess Frederika Luise, 20, granddaughter of Kaiser Wilhelm of Doorn; in Athens. In July, Prince Paul caused a Government crisis by proclaiming his love for the commoner daughter of a wealthy Athens industrialist. His brother and Premier Metaxas put a stop...