Word: premiers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Newsmen who cover Premier Edouard Daladier's office have long known that the Premier and his Minister of Foreign Affairs, Georges Bonnet, are not on the best of political terms. A story which gave an interesting line on each came out of Paris last week. Fundamental difference between the two is that M. Bonnet is an ardent appeaser of dictators, and dreams of being the central figure in a great general European "settlement," while M. Daladier has decided, at least temporarily, to yield no more to Germany and Italy...
...Dominion Parliament at Ottawa publicly disagreed with him. A raucous debate was expected. Minister of Labor William Tremblay of Quebec declared: "Mayor Houde missed his shot with the Communists and is now trying his luck with the Fascists, poor fellow." Noteworthy it was, however, that the Quebec Government of Premier Maurice Duplessis preferred not to enter the argument...
...treason and imprisoned after the War and as long as King Albert sat on the throne, they had no hope of securing their freedom. Two years ago, however, broad-minded young King Leopold set out to unify his nation before another war, succeeded in having Paul van Zeeland, then Premier, push through Parliament a general amnesty granting full pardon to the post-War Flemish traitors...
...Adrian Martens, a mediocre medical man who had worked for Flemish autonomy. Sentenced to death, Martens escaped to The Netherlands in 1918. The Belgians burned him in effigy. After the passage of the amnesty bill, he returned unobtrusively to take up practice in Ghent. Some time ago, Belgian Premier Paul Henri Spaak proposed Dr. Martens for membership in the newly created Flemish Academy of Science and King Leopold gave the proposal his royal signature. The Premier went before the Parliament and, after a riotous session, finally came out with its reluctant approval. But when he reached his home the veterans...
Last week Premier Spaak did. King Leopold turned the job of forming a new Cabinet and placating the angry veterans over to onetime Premier Henri Jaspar...