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...that they would not support him unless the proposed cuts were restored in wounded veterans' and war widows' pensions, and in expenditures for social service education. Opposition of the fire-eating Right parties is constant, but in Daladiers own party a split is brewing with followers of Edouard Herriot, anxious to pay France's defaulted debt to the U. S. at once. Daladier and disciples are for nonpayment. As spokesman for the Right, Former Finance Minister Pierre Etienne Flandin popped up in the Chamber of Deputies last week and asked a number of questions that the world...
...there is a difference in the Daladier and Coolidge personalities. Edouard Daladier was born near Avignon in Provence 49 years ago, son of a baker. Though Edouard Daladier was no Separatist, a friend of his boyhood was the late great Poet Frederic Mistral, reviver of the Provencal language. Desiring to be a schoolteacher, Edouard Daladier entered a normal school and studied under a plump vomit: man whose career was to parallel his from then on: Edouard Herriot...
...Edouard Daladier fought in the trenches with much éclat. He was cited and decorated several times. Those were the days when nice young ladies "adopted" men in the service, knitted them mufflers and wrote them letters. Muscular Edouard Daladier's marraine was a Mile Laffont, daughter of a scientist. He met her on leave and married...
...Edouard Herriot, by now a rising power in the Radical-Socialist Party, remembered his prize pupil and got him a seat in the Chamber of Deputies. He was a member of Herriot's junket to Soviet Russia, joined the Herriot Cabinet in 1924 as Minister of Colonies. Never catching the national spotlight, his influence in the party and in France grew & grew. He served in the 1926 Herriot Cabinet, fought ultra-Nationalist Raymond Poincare persistently, was elected president of the Radical-Socialist Party in 1927, became leader of a party faction separate from his old teacher last winter...
...Edouard Daladier has the distinction of being the only French Premier ever to have been kidnapped. In 1929 two young French Fascists rushed him off in a motor car, in an effort to prevent his speaking at Strasbourg. M. Daladier escaped, reached the meeting rumpled but determined to talk...