Word: edouard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Premier Edouard Daladier struck terror into the hearts of foreign-subsidized journalists of both Left and Right. Using his wide decree powers, the Premier's Government published a law which: 1) prohibited defamation or slander promoting hatred "against any group of persons belonging to any particular race or religion"-i.e., against the Jews, a specialty of the Reich-subsidized press; 2) made it unlawful to receive from foreign countries funds for "antinational propaganda"; 3) provided that any funds received for publicity campaigns, directly or indirectly, must be reported in eight days...
...seven days of swift diplomatic action, punctuated by movements of men and ships, Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain and Premier Edouard Daladier: 1) committed their Governments to unqualified defense of Greece and Rumania in case of attack; 2) prepared to give a similar pledge to Turkey; 3) were able to report progress in bringing big, powerful Soviet Russia at least partly into their "Peace Front."* On the sidelines, Rumania and Poland (whose borders had already been guaranteed) doctored their own 18-year-old alliance against Russian aggression to include German aggression...
Parallel? To nervous Europeans behind their taut frontiers, last week's events seemed as world-shaking as those of the fateful summer of 1914. No ordinary diligence caused Premier Edouard Daladier to call a meeting of the French Council of National Defense on Easter Sunday. Nor did any ordinary crisis cause Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain to break a well-earned fishing holiday in Aberdeenshire to hurry back to London and summon for the first time since the World War a full Cabinet session for Easter Monday. Parliament was also convened in special session...
...Lebrun received 506 of 904 votes. The opposition was not so much to popular President Lebrun as to Premier Edouard Daladier's policies. Principal opposition came from Communists and Socialists, who scattered their votes-in order to express their lively joy in the game of politics-among various minor candidates and even among some who were not candidates at all, such as ancient (82) Marshal Philippe Petain, recently appointed French Ambassador to Franco Spain (19 votes...
...idea of shatterproof glass was born in 1903 when a French chemist, Edouard Benedictus, knocked a bottle containing dried collodion from a shelf. The bottle cracked but the fragments did not spatter. Benedictus concluded that they were held together by the collodion film. He got a patent in 1914 but the first shatterproof glass did not appear in automobiles until...