Word: premieres
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Second Sunday. As they did the Sunday before, French Premier Edouard Daladier and Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet came over to London last Sunday, this time cheered with much greater enthusiasm by English crowds in Whitehall, which rang loudly with La Marseillaise...
Meanwhile, President Benes and Premier Hodza had not cracked, calmly announced the Anglo-French demands were "receiving consideration." Prague papers were encouraged to print them in full, placed under rigid censorship as to editorial comment. As the Czechoslovak cabinet sat hour after hour indecisively pondering its answer to the Anglo-French proposals, the Government sent a blunt question to Paris: What would France do about its pact with Czechoslavakia if Prague's answer was no? The question was born of desperation. Under the treaty setups, Czechoslovakia can call on France for aid only if she is the victim...
...there are many, were given sudden hope last week by an unexpected passage in Il Duce's speech at Trieste, most of which was devoted to possibilities of war (see p. 15). Although declaring that "World Jewry, during sixteen years, has been an irreconcilable enemy of Fascism," Premier Mussolini added, "Jews of Italian citizenship, however, possessing indisputable military and civic merits toward Italy and the Regime, will find understanding and justice! As for the other Jews, a policy of separation will be followed. In the end the world, perhaps, will be surprised more at our generosity than...
...Italy since the War. Eager to please the Dictator, many Italian employers have been firing Jews, many Jews have fearfully resigned important posts. Last week it was learned that the brilliant Jewish correspondent, Alberto Moravia, after being fired by the People's Gazette of Turin, wrote directly to Premier Mussolini, asking if the Dictator had ever issued orders for Jewish journalists to be booted from their jobs. Promptly the Premier gave the Turin Gazette's editor a wigging, and rehired was Meritorious Jew Moravia...
Died. Manuel Garcia Prieto, Marqués de Alhucemas, 78, onetime (1917-23) Premier of Royalist Spain; in Burgos. When, few months before Primo de Rivera's 1923 coup, he was publicly asked whether a military clique was planning to take over the Government, the Marqués replied: "If it were true they would have to pass over my dead body." Thereafter friends & enemies alike called him "The Corpse...