Word: premieres
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...huge Palais de l'Alimentation in Nantes, the chief interest of some 8,000 Socialists was watching ex-Premier Léon Blum, party president for 15 years, fight a losing battle with his old friend, 61-year-old, thin-lipped, General Secretary Paul Faure...
Ever since Munich Blum has been plumping for French rearmament, strengthening of the Franco-Soviet Pact, a united front against aggressors. He has supported Premier Daladier's foreign policy since that policy edged away from appeasement, even traveled to London to persuade the Labor Party to abandon its traditional fight against conscription...
...Nantes, where hotels were so full some delegates had to make special arrangements, tolerantly giving up their rooms to prostitutes when necessary, the ex-Premier went into battle controlling a majority of the delegates. He offered a motion advocating a united front against aggressor nations abroad, continuation of the Popular Front, with Communists included, at home. The vote: 5,490 against...
Shrewdly sidestepping such grave internal problems as the peasants' demands for partitioning the big estates, what to do with Hungary's Jews, Premier Count Paul Teleki last week asked Hungarians to vote confidence in his foreign policy of close but wary association with the Axis by keeping his Government Party in power. In Hungary's first secret ballot since 1920 they did. Result: for the Government Party 180 out of 260 seats. But this Hungarian rhapsody ended when returns showed that the five Hungarian Nazi parties had increased their seats from 14 to 39 and their total...
...sacred Japanese Emperor leads the parade of personalities in the newest Almanac de Gunther, as the author discusses his divinity, ancestry, poetry, wealth, family and advisers. After that, among many others, come the venerable, 89-year-old Prince Saionji, last of the Genro; jingoistic Baron Kuchiro Hiranuma, who as Premier has an earthquake-and-assassination-proof house; aristocratic former Premier Prince Fumimaro Konoye, who has made a "cult of languor"; Lieut.-General Seishiro Itagaki, most prominent member of the Army's radical Kwantung Clique, who conquered and now rules Manchukuo; the fabulously rich men who own the Houses...