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Next day the Conservatives freed President Grinius, and forced him to call Professor Augustine Valdemaras (Conservative) to the Premiership. Antona Smetona, for some 20 years a tireless exponent of Lithuanian nationalism, thus halted by force last week the growing rapprochement with Soviet Russia which was the policy of the ousted Socialist Cabinet. Then, to make his coup "constitutional" he forced President Grinius to resign, and finally compelled the Seimas (Parliament) to assemble and elect him (Smetona) President...
...nearly done. I have only to live until I find a wife for our five-year-old Crown Prince Peter" (TIME, May 10). The sap was running strong in M. Pashitch yet, it seemed. When he rode away to the Royal Palace it must have been to accept the Premiership for the twelfth time. Pashitch would take the helm. Everything would be all right...
Herr Madsen Nydgal, Minister of Agriculture in the last Liberal Cabinet, was expected to be called to the Premiership by King Christian X. Meanwhile the electoral machinery of the Landsthing (Upper House) was not in motion, last week, since the Senators are elected only once in four years (for a term of eight years) by an elaborate system of electoral boards not scheduled to function again until 1928. The Danish nobility, of whom no more are created, have no ipso facto place in the Landsthing, but, on the other hand have the peculiar privilege of passing on their titles...
Greeks and Jugoslavs have struggled mightily since the War for political control of Albania, a republic bounded by Greece, Jugoslavia and the Adriatic. Last week the influence of Jugoslavia became definitely predominant at Tirana (the capital) when Ahmed Bey Zogu, the Jugoslav-born President of Albania, called to the Premiership Cena Bey, also a Jugoslav by birth. The Greek faction, headed by onetime (June-Dec. 1923) Premier Bishop Fan Stylian Noli (now exiled in Italy), were reported last week to be seeking aid from Premier Mussolini wherewith to regain control of Albania and oust therefrom the Jugoslavs...
...Commons (1918) as Premier Lloyd George swept the country with his "Hang the Kaiser" campaign, but resumed his seat in the House (1920) and leadership of the Liberal Party. Later he made peace with Mr. Lloyd George in the year following the letter's fall from the Premiership (1922). The two uniting against the tariff proposals of Premier Stanley Baldwin threw the Liberal party behind the first and only Labor Government of Britain (1924) and caused the fall of this cabinet by withdrawing Liberal support later in the same year. He was created Earl of Oxford and Asquith...