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...Single aim: to conquer." The Chamber was restive as the new Premier entered to present the aims on which his Premiership would stand or fall. Seeking to warm up the Deputies, he hailed "the flame of Jacobin patriotism which animates Daladier and which is the soul of the country." Daladier meanwhile was being cheered in the Senate, but neither house showed enthusiasm for the short, characteristic Cabinet declaration of Paul Reynaud which he read in four minutes flat. Keynote: "My government has but a single aim-to conquer...
...first things knowing Japanese noticed was that Premier Yonai hailed from Iwate Province. Only two Iwate men before him rose to the Premiership. Both died at the hands of assassins. But neither public surprise nor superstition dampened Mitsumasa Yonai's confidence. He felt sure that by inventing a few metaphors neat as chopsticks, by continuing to mouth nebulous phrases about the New Order and completion of the China Incident (taking steps meanwhile to prolong it), by playing ball with the Army-in short, by emulating most of his recent predecessors-he would make as good a Premier...
Return. But the Bratianus were slipping. Post-War land reforms gave the peasants thousands of acres. After Versailles, democracy was on the wax in Europe and, notwithstanding Rumania's notorious balloting methods, a peasant leader named Juliu Maniu eventually won the premiership in 1929. When his reforms were further blocked by the Bratianu court clique, he conceived a plan to dethrone Mihai, crown Carol and get rid of Dowager Queen Marie and Prince Stirbey for good...
Then, for the first time since Japan began its conquest of China, the army got its own man the premiership. The Emperor gave the job to austere, fanatically patriotic, 73-year-old Baron Kiichiro Hiranuma. Recognized civilian leader of Japan's military-fascist front, since the army's uprising in February 1936 Baron Hiranuma has been president of Emperor Hirohito's Privy Council...
...natural resources. Three years ago, this economic bootstrap-hoisting act was embraced by "Bible Bill." He entered the Alberta lists with a vigorous campaign which wedded radicalism with evangelicalism. He emerged with 56 Social Credit seats of the 63 in Alberta's Legislative Assembly and the premiership. But even with this overwhelming majority, "Bible Bill's" numerous plantings of Social Credit seed never took root. This was simply because one economic plant has no chance of growing in another...