Word: premieres
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Significantly, the Associated Press reported that France was on the point of withdrawing its Ambassador from Leftist Spain. The United Press reported that Dr. Negrin was on the point of resigning as Premier, perhaps to be replaced by one of the available politicians who served as Premier of all Spain before the outbreak...
...Harry Twyford and Messrs. Gillies and Grenfell were joined by Sir Neill Malcolm, the League of Nations High Commissioner for German Refugees, who appealed to the Czechoslovak Premier, tough, one-eyed General Jan Syrovy. "We Czechs are determined once and for all that there shall be no repetition of what we have suffered on the grounds of 'German minority questions'" the Premier-General told the High Commissioner...
...Chvalkovsky knew that in a nearby Munich hotel was waiting former Hungarian Premier Dr. Koloman Daranyi on a mission from Budapest to ask the Chancellor to "advise" Czechoslovakia to yield 8,000 square miles to Hungary-enough territory to pinch off the eastern end of Czechoslovakia and give Hungary & Poland a common frontier. The Hungarians had been offered 2,000 square miles which they indignantly rejected last week and Hungarian Regent Horthy promptly mobilized approximately 500,000 troops with the slogan "for Peace...
Year ago, after Britain and France had commissioned the then Premier of Belgium, scholarly Paul van Zeeland, to make his now dust-gathering study of the economic obstacles to world trade, pleased King Leopold wrote his Premier, suggested an international economic institute...
Last week the young monarch was in Paris, there attended the dedication of a monument to his father, the late King Albert. Surprised were France's President Albert Lebrun, Premier Edouard Daladier and Leopold's sister, the Crown Princess of Italy, when the King brushed aside the conventional speech of thanks, launched into an impassioned plea for his ideas...