Word: edouard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Amour. In comparison to Germany last week pre-Christmas France was paradise. Oysters, caviar, foie gras, turkey, geese or chicken, wines and liquor were all abundant and Premier Edouard...
France's President Albert Lebrun and Premier Edouard Daladier went out to the B. E. F. area and lunched His Majesty in a village restaurant. In deference to them he went without his usual midday Scotch & splash, drank wine with the meal (oysters, roast chicken, potatoes, peas, duck pâté, salad, ices, fruit). Another day he lunched in a corporals' mess room, another in a chateau used by Napoleon before, and by Wellington after, Waterloo. The King's comment to an artillery officer was quoted as his cheering verdict to all ranks: "As long...
Eastern Front will become a reality." "The result of the war is not to be decided only by military operations," Premier Edouard Daladier significantly declared. "In the final decision the evolution of international policy and the relationship between powers and the action of moral forces will play a big part." Evolving at an ominous pace were the international policies and relationships of Stalin, Hitler, Mussolini...
...French custom-democracy-bobbed up again last week in Paris, much to the embarrassment of the Government of Premier Edouard Daladier. For over a year the Premier has ruled his country with a firm-and sometimes heavy-hand by the simple expedient of persuading the French Parliament to grant him powers to issue decrees having the force of law. Before September M. Daladier's favorite argument for such powers was the deepening European crisis. Since September he has had an even better selling point...
Please permit a reader to submit a nomination for not one but two Men of the Year. They are Neville Chamberlain and Edouard Daladier...