Word: premieres
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...project so great as that envisioned by His Majesty can be compressed into an informal, friendly letter of reasonable length, but the encouraging lead which Leopold III gave to Premier van Zeeland was phrased in "the King's own hand" thus...
Ceremonious, courageous and irascible Dutch Premier Dr. Hendrikus Colijn should like ceremonious, courageous and irascible George Gordon. Cracked a State Department official two years ago when Minister Gordon was dispatched south: "When the Haitians get to know George, they'll think we have sent them back the United States Marines." Matter of fact, deeply cultured Mr. Gordon was astonished and charmed by the erudite French culture he found typical of many mulatto statesmen in Haiti, and it was fun for diminutive Mrs. Gordon to appear at a Haitian ball one night with dashing Dictator Trujillo of the nearby Dominican...
Prince Paul, the Regent of Yugoslavia, virtually hid himself in Slovenia last week until Premier Milan Stoyadinovich, an Orthodox, and Minister of Interior Father Anton Koroshetz, a Roman Catholic priest, should have succeeded or failed to jam the Concordat through the Skupshtina (Lower House). Sick deputies were brought in-even on stretchers-to vote and the Cabinet finally...
...Orthodox Synod proceeded to excommunicate temporarily almost every Orthodox member of the Cabinet this week, including Premier Stoyadinovich, whom it denied the ministrations of the Church, and implied that Regent Paul might have been excommunicated had he not so carefully stood aloof. Cautiously the Regent returned from Slovenia, hastened to the Cathedral, kissed the ikon upon the bier of the Patriarch, fervently prayed and was besought to "Dismiss Stoyadinovich...
...Paris, Mr. & Mrs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr. lunched with French Vice-Premier Leon Blum, Foreign Minister Yvon Delbos...