Word: premiers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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White men have confidence that they can bluff a Chinaman. Perhaps that fact explains why Premier Count Stephen Bethlen of Hungary proceeded, last week, to bluff the League of Nations. He knew that the Acting President of the League Council is now, by alphabetical rotation, His Excellency Tcheng Loh, the Chinese Minister at Paris...
Clearly it behooved Premier Poincarâ, last week, to meet the challenge of both these coming events by delivering a speech which would fire Alsace-Lorrainer with especial loyalty to France...
Electioneering. With the matter of those to be tried thus disposed of, Premier Poincare turned to electioneering pure and simple. Fervently, though at times sketching the truth, he cried: "France never formulated the idea of revanche*. . . We waited immobile and anxious before the sphinx of Destiny until the day when the Imperial Governments of Austria and Germany, drunk with pride, loosed on their peoples and ours that catastrophe which until the last minute we strove to avoid. . . . On that day of days we were free again, and we swore never to lay down our arms before we had assured...
...judge from the ovation which followed, Premier & Lawyer Poincaré had won his case. While most of the 559 mayors shouted "Vive la France!" he dramatically saluted with a kiss Mlle. Jeanette Wolff, aged 9, daughter of the Mayor of Bountzenheim by whom she was presented as "Young Alsace...
Malcontents. While Premier Poincaré returned to Paris, last week, observers scanned Alsace-Lorraine for the jailed malcontents and plotters against whom he had fulminated...