Word: premieres
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...help Premier Daladier get France "back to normalcy" as soon as possible, President Albert Lebrun and the Cabinet signed over to him decree powers running until Jan. 1, 1939. In democratic France the parliamentary rumpus stirred up by this forced the Premier to promise not to use these powers after November 15 without a further mandate from Deputies and Senators. Daladier had previously been voted confidence 535-to-75 by the Chamber, after keynoting: "All Frenchmen must now consider themselves permanently mobilized in the service of Peace. . . . We hope to substitute legal practices for solutions by force. ... In the interests...
...Chamber vote on the decree of plenary powers was of extreme significance because the Popular Front coalition, on which the Daladier Cabinet is nominally based, split three ways. Its Communists voted "Non"; its Socialists abstained; its Radical Socialists voted "Oui." Thus Premier Daladier-opposed by the Reds and deserted by the Pinks-won only because the remainder of the Chamber, the Right, voted "Oui" with his Radical Socialists (who are moderates). He was considered to have emerged from the debate as head of a new coalition broadly Middle Class, with a touch of French Aristocracy...
...aristocrat himself, Edouard Daladier, son of a humble Provencal baker, was a professor of history and geography before he entered politics. As the Senate and Chamber rose last week, to reconvene November 16, the Premier went to work on a sweeping program of economic, fiscal and defense measures which must now be rushed to make the Republic as strong as possible against "new"-or "renewed"- Friend Germany...
...that his weight dropped to 92 lbs., and four months ago he was forced to take a prolonged rest cure at Hot Springs, Va. Back in Washington last week, Ambassador Saito, whose wife likens him to a tireless, leaping carp, was reported to have received an urgent Tokyo cable. Premier Konoye, stuck to find a Foreign Minister when General Kazushige Ugaki suddenly quit fortnight ago, requested Hiroshi Saito to take the post. General Ugaki. long on the outs with an army clique determined to add all China to Japan's control, re-signed when complete charge of the China...
...Premier decided to take on the Foreign Affairs portfolio himself for the time being, quickly appointed as new Ambassador to the U. S. his Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs, 52-year-old Kensuke Horinouchi, a cultured, urbane globe trotter with 27 years of diplomatic life behind him. No stranger to the U. S., Ambassador Horinouchi served as counselor to the embassy in Washington in 1930 and as consul general in New York...