Word: premieres
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Germans have about 1,000,000 men under arms continually, have called up another 500,000. Italy has mobilized several classes. Just to make the mobilization general, French Premier Edouard Daladier, under his new decree powers, had poured thousands of special reservists into frontier defenses...
...Balkan Entente.) For a day or two it seemed to the outside world that Britain and France might rescue her from German pressure. But in the end Rumania signed on the dotted line. With that signature Adolf Hitler made his biggest killing to date. This week Rumanian Premier Armand Calinescu pathetically denied that his country had lost any of her independence...
...appeasement of aggressors began in 1932 when, as Foreign Secretary, he virtually welcomed Japan's invasion of Manchuria-much to the chagrin of the U. S. Secretary of State, Henry L. Stimson. Sir Samuel's big try at appeasement came in 1935, when with French Premier Pierre Laval, he arranged a deal to give Benito Mussolini a big chunk of Ethiopia. He had to resign because of public indignation, but soon found another Cabinet job. That the Prime Minister's indignation at Adolf Hitler may be only temporary was hinted at last week when Mr. Chamberlain took...
...form of his most impressive material invention. In pre-Mussolini days the Italian Government was a constitutional monarchy modeled largely on the British system. The Italian Senate resembled the British House of Lords. Senators were (and still are) appointed for life by the King on the nomination of the Premier. The Chamber of Deputies, elected by universal suffrage, was like the House of Commons. It initiated legislation, formed and overthrew governments, held the actual reins of power. Now this system of government no longer exists even in form...
...Premier Mussolini has allowed the aristocratic Senate to continue its obedient, decorative existence, even though some of its functions have been assumed by the Council. About 95% of the Senators are now Fascists. The 5% who are antiFascists (like Benedetto Croce, the philosopher) know enough to stay away...