Word: premiers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Premierial Pre-Occupations. Premier Stanley Melbourne Bruce of Australia, conscious that his Dominion needs the protection of the British fleet against Japan, remarked significantly: "Our people are now spending 18 shillings [$4.38] a head per year on defenses, practically twice as much as all the other dominions put together, and only five shillings less per head per year than the English taxpayer. . . . We would like to see each part of the Empire similarly bearing the common load...
Naturally Premier James B. M. Hertzog of South Africa, his Dominion safely distant from foreign naval threats, did not touch upon what his taxpayers might be willing to contribute to Empire defenses. General Hertzog was undoubtedly preoccupied instead last week, with the news that one of his chief "Nationalist" political henchmen, Dan Goetzee, had bolted to the Opposition, or loyalist "South African Party" of onetime (1919-24) South African Premier General Jan Christiaan Smuts. Bolter Goetzee, ever a law unto himself, added insult to injury by proclaiming that Premier Hertzog is taking the wrong tack at London by hinting...
...Heard Premier Baldwin admit in the course of debate that Laborite Prohibitionist Dr. Alfred Salter was very nearly correct when he declared that many Right Honorable Members are habitual drunkards (TIME...
...Lieutenant Commander the Honorable Joseph Montague Kenworthy (heir to the ninth Baron Strabolgi), long a famed bulwark of Georgian Liberalism, grew so vexed at last with Mr. Lloyd George that he bolted without warning into the Laborite ranks of onetime (Jan.-Nov. 1924) Premier Ramsay Macdonald...
Thus spoke Premier Mussolini six weeks ago when the anarchist Gino Lucetti flung a bomb at him in Rome and missed him (TIME, Sept. 20). Last week II Duce visited Bologna. Amid a teeming throng he opened the new athletic Stadium Littoriale. As he rode away a youth darted from the crowd and fired point blank at Signor Mussolini. The bullet ripped away a piece of cloth from the Premier's coat, pierced the sash of the Grand Cordon of the Order of St. Maurice and St. Lazarus which he wore, grazed the sleeve of the Mayor of Bologna...