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...last week, none other than French Premier Edouard Daladier, in a speech on the French military budget before the Senate, spoke a good word for federation. The French and British Empires, he declared, have permanently "dismissed national egoism" and have come to an agreement on community of action "whose consequences are incalculable." The Premier continued...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Federation, Perhaps | 1/8/1940 | See Source »

...Poncet, who was once professor of German at the École Normale, later French Ambassador to Nazi Germany and now to Fascist Italy, last week hurried from Paris to Rome. On him were the eyes of the chancelleries of Europe. He was said to carry to Benito Mussolini from Edouard Daladier a generous basis for adjustment of the outstanding claims of Italy against France-claims which just 13 months ago were voiced in the Italian Chamber with raucous shouts of "Tunisia! Corsica! Nice!" (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: New Deal? | 1/1/1940 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Christmas | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WESTERN THEATRE: Visitors | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Blank Check | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

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