Word: premieres
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...recent scramble of statesmen, as soon as they heard that he was going to convene the Reichstag to make speeches of appeasement, conciliation and even flattery. In thus buttering Der Führer, immaculate British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden led (TIME, Jan. 25). He was followed by French Premier Leon Blum, who as a Socialist and a Jew doubly hates the Nazis. And last week the British Chancellor of the Exchequer, inflexible Neville Chamberlain, who is perhaps to become the next Prime Minister after the Coronation in May, told his constituents at Birmingham: "Tomorrow Herr Hitler is expected to make...
...acres and bearing the name of HOWARD-which is, in English opinion, the most illustrious nonRoyal name in England-there was married at Brompton Oratory in London last week, while some 2,000 women scrambled, screamed and fought with police to glimpse the proceedings, England's Premier Duke, Bernard Marmaduke Fitzalan-Howard, 16th Duke of Norfolk, Earl Marshal and Hereditary Marshal and Chief Butler of England, Earl of Arundel, Surrey and Norfolk, Baron Fitz Alan, Clun, Oswaldestre and Maltravers, onetime 2nd Lieut. Royal Horse Guards, aged...
...accomplished Secret Service or Ogpu.* Husband Dmitri Navachine was perhaps the ablest Soviet banker, economist and financier Communism has produced. As Director of the Soviet State Bank's Paris branch for some years, Red Navachine won the confidence of such leading French statesmen as the present Premier Léon Blum and his predecessors, Premiers Herriot & Laval. The Bolshevik banker convinced these statesmen that France could trust Dictator Joseph Stalin and the result was the present Franco-Soviet Pact, negotiated by Herriot, signed by Laval, upheld by Blum (TIME, May 13, 1935 et seq.). From the point of view...
...gentleman of flawless Harvard accent and Parisian mien is Dr. Vikyuin Wellington Koo, the great Chinese diplomat who is now Minister to France, who held the like post in Washington and London, who has dominated Chinese diplomacy at every World Conference from Versailles to the London Economic, was acting Premier of China for eight months a decade ago and who last week at Geneva presided over the 96th session of the League Council as its president. ¶ Fresh from Madrid arrived the Council's special Medical Commission of two French doctors and one Polish to report "the health...
...cooperating with the people." Hamada then worked himself up to a typical Japanese nervous frenzy, screamed, "I will kill myself by hara-kiri if it can be proved that the Army and the Cabinet are not hand-in-glove!" Riotously the session adjourned. To the Imperial Palace rushed Premier Koki Hirota, advised bespectacled Emperor Hirohito to suspend Parliament for two days. But War Minister Terauchi's blood was at boiling point. He demanded that the Cabinet advise the Emperor to dissolve the Diet and order fresh elections. He relied on the fact that he and Navy Minister Admiral Osami...