Word: premieres
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Turning their backs squarely on these states, whose envoys in London knew even less than reporters about what was going on, the two chiefs, Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain and Premier Edouard Daladier, proceeded to capitulate and cooperate in efforts to redraw the map of Central Europe so that tension would be ended, Peace bulwarked. Chancellor Adolf Hitler was the chief who last week forced this decision by crude, primitive demands and threats made to Neville Chamberlain behind the soundproof walls of the Führer's study at Berchtesgaden. Premier Benito Mussolini was the unashamed and blatant chief...
Chamberlain & Daladier, Here was the stark Nazi reality which Europe faced -openly expressed at last-secretly impressed long ago upon the inner councils of London, Paris, Rome, Moscow. When Premier Edouard Daladier, who was presiding in Paris at a State dinner for the Tsar of Bulgaria, was called to the telephone by Neville Chamberlain and invited to No. 10 Downing Street for a last round-up this week, France had already given and observed many signs which made decision easier. Before every war which France has ever actually entered, the spontaneous will of her people has sent them swirling through...
...whole of the vast steel and cement subterranean Maginot Line was more fully manned than ever before. General Edouard Réquin, in command of the Maginot Line, was abruptly promoted to the Superior War Council and several other high army commanders were given new key posts by Premier Daladier, who is his own drastic, jut-jawed Defense Minister...
...Hradcany Castle, ancient stronghold on the heights of Prague, Czechoslovak President Eduard Benes faced the crisis of his career. Fortnight ago the "maximum concessions" which the Czechoslovak Government believed it possible to make to Sudeten Germans without shattering its own sovereignty were offered in Premier Milan Hodza's "Plan No. 3," which Hitler promptly had the Sudetens turn down. The President then took over from the Premier, drafted and released...
...Plan No. 4." Premier Hodza in Plan No. 3 offered to reshape Czechoslovakia into a federation of Gaue or cantons like the Swiss Federal State, thus giving the Sudeten Germans and other minorities "states' rights...