Word: premieres
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...France Premier Edouard Daladier, discarding protests as mere "words, words, words," went before Parliament and obtained dictatorial powers to permit him to act secretly and promptly to forestall any further Nazi or Fascist moves. He was expected to put France on a virtual wartime footing, to call up extra men to the colors, to speed arms production. The French toyed with the idea of building up a strong Eastern European entente of Poland, Rumania and Yugoslavia...
...Carpathian mountains did not fall without a struggle. Czech soldiers in Carpatho-Ukraine, having learned that Bohemia was a German province, bee-lined for the Rumanian border, where they surrendered their arms and were interned. But the Ukrainian Nationalist Guards of Carpatho-Ukraine, armed at the last minute by Premier Augustin Volosin, long a Ukrainian nationalist leader, put up a stiff resistance. There was a pitched battle to take Chust, the capital. It took Hungary a full four days to occupy the territory, in contrast to the mere eight or ten hours it took the Germans to seize
Czech territory. Meanwhile, Premier Volosin, failing to get protection from Führer Hitler or assistance from Rumania's King Carol, fled into Rumania in a peasant's oxcart...
Suddenly this week came the news that Ex-Premier Tiso, too, was a hero. Somehow he got out of the monastery and into an airplane-which flew straight to Berlin. Adolf Hitler immediately received him for a 40-minute conference. As the ousted Dr. Tiso drove away, Führer Hitler's Elite Bodyguard rolled out a drum salute reserved for foreign statesmen who are still in office. Dr. Tiso hurried to a telephone and called Premier Sidor in Bratislava: summon the Slovak Parliament, he commanded, for he was coming to read it a declaration...
...this background of struggle month ago a mediocre physician, Adrian Martens, who had been sentenced to death in 1918 (and later reprieved) for plotting Flemish autonomy with Germany, was appointed a charter member of the newly created Flemish Academy of Science. The Walloons were furious and the Cabinet of Premier Paul Henri Spaak fell on that issue. It was suspected that King Leopold had backed the appointment. After that Belgian statesmen struggled to form Cabinets, failed in dizzy succession. Soon the suspicion was rife that the King had dictatorial ambitions. Last week a shortlived Cabinet-that of Walloon Premier Hubert...