Word: premiers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hotel des Bergues astute Aristide Briand greeted Pilsudski with a neat reference to the days when they were fellow radicals.? "My old friend," he said, "we see now how useful it is to be a Socialist. Here you are Premier Marshal and Dictator of your country while I hold the record for the number of times** I have been Premier of mine." Seemingly the Marshal (a Socialist turned Autocrat) minded not this sally...
...consideration were the embroiled affairs of two minor dictators: Prime Minister Augustine Valdemaras of Lithuania, and Prime Minister Josef Pilsudski, erratic Pole. Status Quo. Marshal Pilsudski insisted, last week in Warsaw, that he had positive knowledge of recent Lithuanian mobilization against Poland. Commenting to flabbergasted reporters, he charged that Premier Valdemaras of Lithuania is a "man whose proper home is an insane asylum . . . absolutely unaccountable for his acts ... a 'superpatriot' who was a Russian for a long time, then posed as a German, finally coming out a Lithuanian." Of himself Pilsudski said, modestly: "I walked the floor...
...Premier Valdemaras of Lithuania (less picturesque and well known than Marshal Pulsudski) was the first prime minister of his country (1918), and has represented Lithuania at almost every important international conference since. A scholar, a brilliant speaker commanding ten languages, he bases his political strength squarely on a platform of ardent nationalism. That he has been of many nationalities, in the legal sense, is explained by the fact that the district in which he was born has been, during his lifetime, once Russian, once German, several times Lithuanian and is now Polish. By general repute Premier Valdemaras is deemed relatively...
...Always a Unionist (liberal conservative), he served in the coalition Cabinet of Liberal Premier Loyd George, but is now Foreign Secretary in the Conservative Cabinet of Premier Stanley Baldwin...
...relieve this serious situation, to get U. S. smoke to U. S. smokers in France, the Government of Premier Raymond Poincare issued, last week, a wise decree. Hereafter, during the U. S. tourist season, special credits will be extended to small dealers by the State Tobacco Monopoly, thus enabling them to stock...