Word: premiers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...appeasers," of Britain and France, he had nothing but scorn. He recalled that British and French statesmen (such as Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, Premier Edouard Daladier) had once glorified "the successes of the ill-starred Munich agreement," and now he questioned whether they had really changed at heart. Some correspondents wondered if the Soviet's price for Russian cooperation with France and Britain was the political heads of Appeasers Chamberlain and Daladier...
...Sounding off on foreign policy to the executive committee of his Radical Socialist Party, Premier Daladier denied a policy of encircling Germany: "We are for cooperation, which is just the opposite of encirclement. But each time that we have made a step in this direction the answer has been some act of force. . . . To aggression, to autarchic tyranny, to a fanatic ideology, to unjustified demands for 'vital space,' to all violence and brutality, our answer is 'No'. . . . To all efforts at understanding and loyal collaboration, to all that will aid the recovery of business...
...Governor Stassen and his lady stepped into line to do their handshaking, a guard tapped the Governor on the shoulder, asked him to step aside. The Governor, his face as red as his hair, handed the guard a card. The guard sent it to Manitoba's Premier John Bracken, who was standing beside the King and Queen. Before the card reached the premier an aide took it, gave it one glance, laid it aside. The presentation ceremony ended minus the quick, warm gesture...
Since his retirement Newspaperman Pegler has been living in Madison, Conn, and writing (on a double-keyboard Smith-Premier typewriter he acquired in 1893) a book of reminiscences tentatively entitled 50,000 Deadlines. His language, both written and spoken, reveals the origin of his son Westbrook's self-consciously polysyllabic style. Arthur Pegler finds people parsimonious instead of stingy, takes a libation in preference to a drink. He speaks of a publisher he once worked for as "that ineffable screw...
...PARIS--Premier Edouard Daladier warned the dictators today that regardless of delay in conclusion of a British-French-Russian Entente, France will not tolerate the further acquisition for territory in Europe by force...