Word: premiers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Political Reaction. Onetime Premier Ramsay Macdonald, Leader of the Labor Party, accused Premier Stanley Baldwin and his ministers in the House last week of "retiring with the beautiful airs of a parcel of Vestal Virgins" during the strike, and letting the country go to smash. Choleric, Mr. Macdonald moved a motion of censure which was defeated 339 to 131. Nettled, he shouted: "We want to test by the ballot box whether the nation would like to carry our motion. Parliament should be dissolved...
...When Premier Baldwin rose to reply it was with that somehow pat irrelevance which makes his casual remarks so deadly. "One thing that troubles me," he said placidly, "is that such loyalty and fortitude as the 1,000,000 miners have shown every day during the strike should have been exploited by incompetent leadership.... We shall go to the pollslabby utterance is the crux. The House need not ipso facto be dissolved until 1929. Were it dissolved tomorrow, recent by-elections show that the Labor party could count substantial gains; but much may happen while Mr. Baldwin takes...
...Premier Poincarar, in what receptacle the spaniel returned to France?..." Amid a rustle of handclapping which became a cheer, M. Poincar
...Bring me my overcoat," said Nikola Pashitch gruffly. Bearded and patriarchal, he spoke with the quiet firmness of one who has been his country's Premier eleven times. He had taken only a glass of milk and some cheese for supper, and soon he would be 81, and the doctors had spoken of apoplexy? but he was Pashitch. A crisis threatened, and King Alexander was waiting. When his coat was brought M. Pashitch slung it about him, kissed his eldest daughter gravely, and rolled away in his limousine...
Crisis. The events which sent M. Pashitch hurrying to his King were typical of many a Balkan crisis. The country had supposed that Foreign Minister Nintchitch* was in close touch with Premier Mussolini, and also that the new Jugoslav-born President Zogu of Albania was under his thumb. Like a thunderclap had come the news that Albania and Italy had concluded a mutual accord (TIME, Dec. 13). A rumor spread that this treaty contained secret military clauses which would make Albania an Italian pistol pointed at Jugoslavia. Suspicion, fear, hate seethed. Evidently Foreign Minister Nintchitch was a fool...