EUROPE’S LEADERS

Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 249, 20 October 1939, Page 1 (Supplement)

EUROPE’S LEADERS

BELGIUM. King: Leopold 111. Prime Minister: Hubert Pierlot. Army C. in C.: Lt.-Gen. E. M. Van den Bergen. GREAT BRITAIN. King: George VI. Prime Minister: Neville Chamberlain. Lord President of the Council: Earl Stanhope. Chancellor of the Exchequer: Sir John Simon. Lord Privy Seal: Sir * Samuel Hoare. Foreign Minister: Viscount Halifax. Dominions Secretary: Anthony Eden. Information: Lord MacMillan. Social Welfare: Ronald Cross. Colonies: Malcolm MacDonald. Air Minister: Sir Kingsley Wood. War Minister: Leslie HoareBelisha. First Lord of the Admiralty: Winston Churchill. Minister of Labour: Ernest Brown. Minister for the Co-ordination of Defence: Admiral Lord Chatfield. C. in C. of the Army: Viscount Gort. Chief of Imperial Defence Staff: Sir Edmund Ironside. C. in C. of Home Forces: General Sir Walter Kirke. First' Sea Lord: Admiral Sir Dudley Pound. Marshal of the R.A.F.: Sir Cyril Newall. BULGARIA. Tsar: Boris 111. Premier: George Kiosseivanoff. War: General Thodoroff Daskaicff. C. in C.: General H. Petkoff. DENMARK. King: Christian X. President of the Council: Thorvald Stanning. **•> FINLAND. President: Kyosti Kallio. Premier : Professor A. IC. Cajander. FRANCE. President: Albert Lebrun. Premier and Minister of War: Edouard Daladier. Vice-Premier: Camille Chautemps. Foreign Minister : Georges Bonnet. Interior: Albert Sarraut. Finance: Paul Reynaud. Navy: Cesar Campinchi. Air: Guy La Chambre. C. in C. Army: Marshal Maurice Gamelin. C. in C. Navy: Admiral Francois Darlan. C. in C. Air Force: General Joseph Vuillemin. GERMANY. Fuehrer, Reich Chancellor and Defence Minister: Adolf Hitler. Deputy Fuehrer: Rudolph Hess. Interior : Dr. Wilhelm Frick. Foreign Affairs: Joachim von Ribbentrop. . ~ "Finance: Count Ludwig von Krosigk. {.Food and Agriculture: Dr. Walter Darre. Economics: Dr. Walter Funk. Labour: Franz Scldte. Post Office : Dr. .Wm. Ohnesorge. Aviation and O-riiL C. Air Force. Marshal- Goering^ Justice; Dr.-#anz Propaganda : Joseph C. in C. Waffjr - von BranchitsjjHr C. in C. Navy ErigjL Raeder. A GREECE. King: George 11. v ’’ ' ' Premier: General John Metaxas. tip C.: General A. Papapagos. HUNGARY. egent: Admiral Nicotas Horthy. Count Por<i\g U Affairs : Qj|>nt^Wky. W a V- General Ch*s de Bartha'l* U ln \L: GeneralWitez Sonyi. h'-• • j U •-'» Tfejfaeri. v Party N r ..v •

SEPTEMBER, 1939

Army Commander: General Al"berto Pariani. Navy Commander: Admiral D. Cavagnari. Air Force Commander: General Giuseppe Valle. LITHUANIA. President: Antanas Smetona. Premier: General Jonas Cernius. Foreign Affairs : Juozas Urbysys. Defence: General K. Musteikis. LUXEMBOURG. Grand Duchess: Charlotte. Premier: Peter Dupong. HOLLAND. Queen: Wilhelmina. Premier: Dr. Jan der Geer. Army: General I. Reynders. Navy: Admiral J. Furstner. NORWAY. Ring: Haakon VII. Premier: Johan Nygaaidsvold. POLAND. President: M. Racziewicz. Army: General Sikorski. Foreign Affairs: M. Saleski. PORTUGAL. President: General Antonio Carmona. Premier: Dr. Antonio de Oliveira Salazar. RUMANIA. King: Carol 11. Premier: General George Argesanu. Foreign Affairs: Gregore Gafencu. C. in C.: General S. Tonescu. SPAIN. President: General Francisco Franco. Minister of Government: Ramon Sumer. Army: General Jose Varela. Air: General Jan Yague. SWITZERLAND. President: Philipp Etter. Foreign Affairs: Dr. Guiseppe Motta. Army: Colonel I. Labhart. SWEDEN. King: Gustav V. Premier: Per Albin Hansson. Foreign Affairs: Rickard Sandler. TURKEY. President-: General Ismet Inonu. Foreign Minister: Sueru Saracoglou. War: General Nasi Tinash. C. in C.: Field-Marshal Fevsi Cakmak. U.S.S.R. President: Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin. Secretary of Communist Party: Joseph Stalin. Army: Marshal Kliment Voroshilov. Air: A. D. Loktienov. Navy: G. I. Levchenko. Foreign Affairs: Viacheslav Mototov. Industry: Lazar Kaganovitch. Chairman of Soviet Union: Andrey A. Andreyer. YUGOSLAVIA. Regents: Prince Paul, Dr. Radenko Stankovitch and Dr. Ivo Petrovitcli. Premier: Dragisha Cvetkovitch. Vice-Premier: Dr. Vladimir Matchek. War: General Milutin Neditch.