Word: premieres
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With a soldier's contempt for the feelings of the Anarchist, Communist and assorted Marxist adherents of the Valencia Cabinet of Premier Largo Caballero in Spain last week, White Generalissimo Francisco Franco let his radiorating General Queipo de Llano appoint as Military Governor of Málaga, just captured from the Reds (TIME. Feb. 15), a soldierly Bourbon, the middle-aged Duke of Seville, onetime Colonel in the Spanish Infantry of King Alfonso XIII...
...prediction is premature, but, British official quarters murmured in terms of having about convinced the French-i. e. harassed Premier Blum who was daily wangling the Communists & Socialists among his "Popular Front" supporters as best he could-that it woul be "disastrous" if a final Spanish White victory should be considered a victory for Italy and Germany without also being a victory for Britain, France and moderate Europeans generally. Stanley Baldwin knows that many of his best friends think he bumbled in not getting Britain in on the Italian conquest of Ethiopia and His Majesty's Government now have...
...stand for drawing Finland into closer relations with the Soviet Union. On the second ballot, Agrarian Party Leader Kyosti Kallio, the only man who has been uninterruptedly elected a Finnish Legislator since 1907, who has been twelve times Speaker of the Diet and who since last October has been Premier, was elected President. Significance: no Finnish political change...
...Mohammedan theory that "all are equal before Allah in prayer," the World's Richest Man prostrated himself with his subjects at the Great Mosque and everyone prayed. Poems were recited and the venerable Hindu Premier read an address hailing his Mohammedan Monarch as "today the sole relic of Mogul greatness in India...
Highhandedly ruling Japan's roost last week was His Majesty's new "Gold-Braid" Cabinet led by handle-bar-mustached Premier General Senjuro Hayashi who had whittled down the customary 13 Cabinet officers to eight, pocketing the portfolios of Foreign Affairs and Education for himself. Premier Hayashi, moreover, had given every vital Cabinet job to a general or admiral, except that President Toyotaro Yuki of the Industrial Bank of Japan received the thankless post of Finance Minister, must somehow find the billions which Japan's fighting services demand...