Word: premieres
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...British and the French Governments who recently asked Premier Paul van Zeeland of friendly Belgium to help them find an international formula to extract Europe from its present economic bog. Van Zeeland began by parleying with President Roosevelt (TIME, June 14). Last week as the Premier busied himself in Brussels, shaping up material he has gathered for presentation to European leaders, the King's letter came, as it was obviously intended to come, as a dramatic stroke to arrest world opinion, help pave the way for action. Next day in London the Laborite Daily Herald enthusiastically told His Majesty...
...Candid General Hayashi has even said that he could not himself understand parts of speech written for him when he was Premier. (TIME...
Sitting at a telephone, Prince Konoye quickly assembled what is still called "The Telephone Cabinet" and rates as one of the broadest assemblages of minds which ever comprised a Japanese Government. As was appropriate for a scion of one of the Godly Families, the Premier-Prince sought to unify the Empire, end party strife. "If I can make old enemies bury the hatchet and become friends," he said, "If I can weld the whole nation into one peaceful family with the Emperor as the father of the household, I shall be content...
...ought to defeat Soviet Russia first, objected that the whole concept of dealing with Nanking before Moscow has been settled is strategically and politically unsound. This Japanese younger school sees Stalin as ultimately behind Chiang and wants to make an end of half measures, but Japanese "Liberals" like the Premier see more wisdom in taking any number of delicate bites at the Chinese cherry. If now Generalissimo Chiang, should really hurl China's whole force against Japan, with Russian cheers behind him, the bedseat-driving Premier would be genuinely dismayed. He hopes with "Liberal" fervor that he may enable...
...Gromov's countrymen made a spectacular flight from Moscow over the top of the world to Vancouver (TIME, June 28), he wanted to do better. He and two other airmen were ushered into the Kremlin sanctum of Joseph Stalin, who was flanked by Defense Commissar "Klim" Voroshilov, Premier Molotov and other Red bigwigs...