Word: premieres
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Therefore his visit to Warm Springs- just after the French had made financial overtures to the Treasury Department; just after the visit of Canada's Premier Mackenzie King; just before the forthcoming visit of Canada's Governor-General Lord Tweedsmuir (John Buchan); while the President is dallying with the idea of a U. S. diplomatic reshuffling and the still bigger idea of some major proposal to promote world peace-was as good an indication as any man could ask that during the entr'acte Protagonist Roosevelt intended to rehearse important lines for use later in the play...
...Paris the social reforms, devaluation and so-called "New Deal" introduced by Socialist Premier Leon Blum were giving his Cabinet racking headaches last week, for Finance Minister Vincent Auriol was spectacularly running short of cash, so short that with much trepidation he was getting up his nerve to launch a 10½ billion franc (about $480,000,000) Government loan...
Like the Roosevelt New Dealers, who are loudly praised by Premier Blum on frequent public occasions, the present French coalition of Communists, Socialists and Radical-Socialists take a confident view of themselves as much holier than Mammon, and Finance Minister Auriol has a habit of alternating blandishments and threats to thrifty Frenchmen who< are comfortably off. Only a few months ago M. Auriol tricked investors by bringing out a "baby bond issue" with gushing Socialist appeals to French proletarians to buy, then devalued the franc in which these bonds are repayable 40% (TIME, Oct. 5). By last week the upping...
...inspired confidence by giving up his stranglehold on the French currency exchange control fund and this will be managed by a new committee, one of which is Professor Charles Rist, long-time Bank of France executive and about as radical as Virginia's Carter Glass. In his speech Premier Blum had smoothly avoided replying to taunts that he himself seemed to have become about as radical as Britain's Ramsay MacDonald and to be leaving in the lurch the French proletariat-but the Communists and Socialists did not last week leave M. Blum, as English Laborites turned from...
...trim and whip-smart a little Japanese diplomat as the Empire could wish is Mr. Naotake Sato. In Tokyo his official rating was Ambassador to France last week, when suddenly he became Foreign Minister. Mr. Sato is emphatically a civilian, whereas the point of view of General-Premier Senjuro Hayashi's new "Gold Braid Cabinet" is extremely militarist (TIME, Feb. 22 et seq.), but the new Foreign Minister quickly made an adroit move. His civilian predecessors at the Foreign Office have tried to attend to their job as though the Japanese Cabinet was like any other co-operative Cabinet...