Word: premiership
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...skyrocketed into world consciousness during the twelvemonth. Mahatma Gandhi, 1930's Man of the Year, is still a prisoner of Britain in the Poona jail and his Indian followers are quiescent if not quiet. Pierre Laval, 1931's Man of the Year, was swept out of the premiership of France last February, is today only a Senator without portfolio. The May elections put Edouard Herriot into power for six months but fortnight ago he and his Ministry went crashing out on the issue of paying the U. S. War Debt...
...four days after his fall, Edouard Herriot blocked formation of a new Cabinet by stanchly insisting that France must pay. Urged by President Lebrun to resume the Premiership, M. Herriot declined the (for him) plainly impossible task of persuading the Chamber to reverse its vote. He thought that some other man might succeed. The President picked Former Premier Camille Chautemps, Minister of Interior in the fallen Herriot Cabinet...
Foxy M. Venizelos, having obtained this promise, considered himself well out of the Premiership last week, prepared to enjoy one of his periods of "indefinite retirement" at his home on Crete...
They must therefore continue their toasts in expensive red wine "to the long life of President von Hindenburg!" and try as hard as possible to "tame" Adolf Hitler further. He was offered last August the Premiership of Prussia, the Vice Chancellorship of the Reich, three Federal Cabinet posts. He turned down all offers in hopes of winning a straight Nazi majority in the Reichstag...
...Reichstag election. Last week Hitler and von Schleicher went to the mat. Handsome Adolf, spurred on by his still more violent lieutenants, held out for complete control of the government. Sly von Schleicher offered him in turn first the Vice Chancellorship, an empty honor, with the Prussian Premiership thrown in; then the Ministry of the Interior and a series of minor posts. Finally possible was a compromise whereby Adolf Hitler might become Chancellor of Germany so long as Kurt von Schleicher remained Minister of Defense with the Nazi storm troops enlisted in the army as unarmed labor battalions. This might...