Word: premiers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Premier (defiant): "Make this bill the principal plank of your program at the general election if you choose, and we will defeat you, even though your slogan be 'Let London Walk...
Laborite Beckett: "I won't withdraw it! I can only say that he [pointing at the Premier] has told lies." (Upon a motion from Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston Churchill the House voted to expel Laborite Beckett for five days...
...Premier (as ever, imperturbable): "I believe that the more this bill is known to the country, the more it will be supported. . . . Any bill passed just after the General Strike might have been vindictive, but this bill is not. . . . We have waited...
Statesmen, be they never so great, must bow before the electorate-the sovereign mob-and thus, last week, so great a statesman as Premier Raymond Poincaré, Wartime President of France, journeyed out to Bar-le-Duc and made before constituents his annual kotow. . . . He told them with a little unguent flattery that they and the electorate at large have returned such excellent deputies and senators that his own task-that of restoring financial and political stability to France out of chaos within ten months-has been comparatively simple. (A wink went round, for most of the audience know well...
Bainville Interprets. Though the Premier went on to speak largely of budgetary and other purely national matters, he made one closely guarded statement which attracted large attention because it was expanded and interpreted next day by a close personal friend of M. Poincaré, pontifical Editor Jacques Bainville of La Liberté. The Premier said: "The reserves of foreign currency which have been accumulated by the Treasury place us in a position to meet our foreign liabilities so that we will not have to accept blindly for a long period, engagements which we would not be sure ; about being able...