Word: edouard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Edouard Daladier limited himself to a lukewarm acceptance of the four-power pact, there were many ventriloquist dummies available to say what he and most Frenchmen really felt. Loudest was the French Press, howling down the Mussolini Plan as an international plot to render France defenseless and rob her of hard-earned gains...
...Ramsay MacDonald decided that the time had come for drastic efforts. Taking with him his Foreign Secretary (Sir John Simon) and an impressive retinue, the Prime Minister appeared at Geneva in the full panoply of the BRITISH EMPIRE. On his way through Paris he failed to persuade French Premier Edouard Daladier to come along -but soon after Mr. MacDonald's arrival in Geneva, M. Daladier changed his mind. In Paris at 9 p. m. the Premier told the Press that he would not go to Geneva. By 10 p. m. wheels were turning under him, the locomotive chuffing, snorting...
Thus, by their learned computations, eminent French statesmen turned the estimated deficit for 1933 into something like a toy balloon alternately blown up and permitted to deflate. During this process two French Cabinets-those of Edouard Herriot and Joseph Paul Boncour-re- soundingly fell (TIME, Dec. 26 & Feb. 6). Last week blustering, dynamic Premier Edouard Daiadier won vote after vote on the budget in the Chamber and Senate. His estimates reduced the expected deficit to a mere 5,566,000,000 francs...
...sensation burst when French newsorgans scareheaded a secret alliance between Italy, Germany and Hungary. This alliance was declared "already complete" on the alleged authority of former Premier Edouard Herriot who was said to have laid secret information before the French Chamber Foreign Affairs Committee...
Even more ominous was the conduct of Edouard Herriot, again elected Leader of the Radical Socialist Party in caucus last week. Though he supported Premier Daladier in the Chamber, M. Herriot gave the impression that he hopes the new Cabinet will soon fall, hopes to succeed it as Premier of a "National Government" above party. In the Chamber, just before the vote of confidence. Radical Socialist Deputies significantly did not cheer when Leader Herriot lukewarmly appealed "for as large a majority as possible" for Radical Socialist Premier Daladier...