Word: edouard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...appeasers," of Britain and France, he had nothing but scorn. He recalled that British and French statesmen (such as Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, Premier Edouard Daladier) had once glorified "the successes of the ill-starred Munich agreement," and now he questioned whether they had really changed at heart. Some correspondents wondered if the Soviet's price for Russian cooperation with France and Britain was the political heads of Appeasers Chamberlain and Daladier...
Elusive Promotion. Not many men get into politics as Edouard Daladier did, not many stay in by such shifts as he has made. He got in via the schoolroom door. His father was a baker in the town of Carpentras and he went to public schools. At the Lycée Duparc in Lyon one of his teachers was Edouard Herriot. By winning first in a history competition at the University of Nimes in 1909, young Daladier obtained an appointment as professor of history at Nimes and a fellowship to study in Rome. Professor Daladier, according to his pupils...
Sitting Pretty. Edouard Daladier is what the French call an homme sérieux. A terrific worker, he leads a modest family life, living with his sister (he is a widower) and his two schoolboy sons. Even as Minister of National Defense he used frequently to bicycle to his office (now he sometimes rides a horse in the Bois de Boulogne). He does not even occupy the Premier's office; he prefers to work in the Ministry of War, of which he is still head...
What M. Daladier wanted, he said, was a "blend of nationalism and democracy" in France: "It is our aim to reconcile the spirits which stormed the Bastille and defended Verdun." When the Popular Front won the elections of 1936, Edouard Daladier became War Minister, under Leon Blum, serving as part of France's New Deal which ousted the 200 families from control of the Bank of France, which established the , 40-hour week, which refused to crack down on sit-down strikers. When reaction to these measures finally forced out Socialist Blum for good, a less radical leader came...
PARIS--Premier Edouard Daladier warned the dictators today that regardless of delay in conclusion of a British-French-Russian Entente, France will not tolerate the further acquisition for territory in Europe by force...