Word: premieres
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Japanese Premier Prince Fumimaro Konoye last week cried accusingly at French Ambassador Charles Arsène-Henry: "The most important route left for transportation of arms to [Chinese Generalissimo] Chiang is through French Indo-China and China is now reported active there...
Foul & Foul? Premier Daladier had not replied this week to Premier Konoye's hint that Indo-China must adopt a "Closed Door" policy on munitions. But the Japanese Government were revealed to have received, on October 6, a note from Washington presented by Ambassador Joseph Clark Grew, repeating previous U. S. demands that Japan return to an "Open Door" trade policy for China...
...annual caucus of the Radical Socialist Party last week met at Marseille, disturbed by a great fire (see col. 1), but offering Premier Daladier a chance to address all France. Misnamed, the Radical Socialists are actually "moderates," are at the approximate centre of the French Chamber political spectrum...
...Premier next replied to Leftist charges that his partial abrogation of the 40-Hour Week Law to speed Rearmament after Munich was against the interests of the working class. He cried: "What is this absurd legend which seeks to make believe that a call to work is merely Fascist ideology? What is the meaning of this crusade against the Government which boomerangs against France? . . . We say there is no more imperious national duty than to produce more and better goods! When I ask a vigorous effort, I ask it of all Frenchmen, not only the working class! I will...
Finally the Premier gave Communist and other propaganda agents in France this warning: "Hitlerian Germany, Fascist Italy and Communist Russia forbid democratic propaganda in their lands. It is their right as sovereign States. The French Republic, whose patience has perhaps been too easygoing, will henceforth watch and render impossible any acts that arise outside of the country's own heart...