Word: premieres
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week before the Leftist supreme military tribunal-not the Barcelona civil court before which P.O.U.M. was simultaneously being tried. Among witnesses called to brand Colonel Villalba as a sellout to Rightist Spain was the Chief of the General Staff of Leftist Spain, General Vicente Rojo, and its early Premier & War Minister Largo Caballero...
While two batches of dirty Leftist linen underwent vigorous washing last week (see above), Premier Dr. Juan Negrin announced he would go on the air at Barcelona, short-waving to the world. Punctually at the appointed hour Rightist bombers,. Rightist radio interference and Dr. Negrin all spoke up. As a broadcast the speech was ruined, but cables carried Dr. Negrin's words by dot & dash. The Leftist Premier, seeking to ward off a peace perhaps soon to be dictated to Spain by the Great Powers which dictated to Czechoslovakia, keynoted to the world public...
...happens that Dr. Juan Negrin, the Premier of the Spanish Republic, is an old friend of mine. Apparently there were persons in the Medical Bureau who thought it would be a gracious gesture to use our friendship as a basis for collecting money to buy much needed food, clothing, and medical supplies for a people in sore distress. The enterprise was started without my knowledge; when it was under way I did nothing to check it, because the purpose was primarily humanitarian. Despite the protest, the enterprise still seems to me to be in accord with the ideals of helpful...
...Benes last week resigned as President, leaving Czechoslovakia in the firm hands of Premier-General Jan Syrovy, and taking leave of his countrymen in an affecting broadcast which acknowledged with dignity that there must now be a change. Dr. Benes, who is independently well off, retired to his 100-acre estate near Prague, where his gardener exulted: "This is the first time I have had a chance to talk with the President about our tulip beds since last spring...
Meanwhile, in Czechoslovakia the Prague Government made the smart move of granting autonomy within the Republic to the Slovaks and leaving the new Slovak Cabinet, which was at once set up under Premier Dr. Jozef Tiso, to undertake the thankless job of negotiating with Hungary, which has claimed slices of Czechoslovakia. In Slovak areas Hungarians had hoped to find some of that "yearning" for Hungary which the Sudetens felt for Germany. However, as soon as the Slovaks were given some of the chance to act big which they have long been denied in Czechoslovakia, they started being niggardly with Budapest...