Word: premiers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Because Quebec's Premier Maurice Duplessis considered the Federal War Mea sures Act an infringement of Quebec's autonomy, last week he ordered a provincial election for this montjjp-Promptly the Federal Government's Justice Minister Ernest Lapointe declared this an "unprovoked challenge." Most of Quebec's 3,500,000 French-Canadians bitterly opposed conscription in World War I, but the Government, having promised that there would be no conscription this time, thought it had a good chance of ousting the Isolationist Duplessis Government, of bringing Canada greater unity than ever before...
Usually well informed embassies heard that when Count Galeazzo Ciano, Italian Foreign Minister, arrived in Berlin Sunday he conveyed a conciliatory peace plan which Premier Benito Mussolini had evolved. It provided for recreation of an independent Poland of restricted size to be guaranteed by all the great European powers instead of by Germany and the Soviet Union alone...
...When four years old, the future Premier lost the use of his left eye when his clumsy nurse, thinking she was administering eye drops, poured acid into it, caused him to wear an opaque monocle for most of his life...
...Government had the ace of trumps up its sleeve. When Premier General Nobuyuki Abe assembled a new Cabinet month ago, he reserved the portfolio of foreign affairs for himself "for the time being." Last week he named as Foreign Minister one of the best Japanese friends of the U. S., Admiral Kichisaburo Nomura. As a student at Annapolis and as naval attache in Washington, he acquainted himself with U. S. naval strategy and Franklin Roosevelt (when he was Assistant Secretary of the Navy). A remarkably huge Japanese-six feet tall and nearly 200 pounds-he lost an eye fighting...
...British War Secretary, Leslie Hore-Belisha, made a quick trip to Paris. Two days later the French members of the Supreme War Council, Premier Edouard Daladier and Generalissimo Maurice Gustave Gamelin, accompanied by several aides, flew secretly to England and met "somewhere in Sussex," in a quiet town hall, with their British colleagues. Munitions and food supply were said to have been the chief agenda. French mobilization was announced as having been finally completed (after 17 days of war), with 3,500,000 men under arms in a zone 15 to 30 miles deep behind the Maginot Line. Artillery pounding...