Word: edouard
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...these are being hastily made up. Last week General Sikorski, after instructing his Finance Minister Colonel Adam Koc to try to get from Britain and France part of some $46,000,000 which they agreed to loan to Poland just as the German invasion began, called on French Premier Edouard Daladier, told him he planned to recruit at least 125,000 Poles to fight with the French. "Europe must be made over," declared Premier Sikorski, "in such a way as to restore independence and security to the oppressed nations: Poland and Czecho-Slovakia...
...Germany, Adolf Hitler tells his people what he wants, and takes it. In Russia, Joseph Stalin does the same. In France, Edouard Daladier had promulgated sweeping socialistic measures by decree. In Great Britain, Sir John Simon opened the budget in September instead of April...
Adolf to Neville & Edouard. Actual nub of the Hitler speech was an effort to undermine Allied morale by representing Poland as a Humpty Dumpty which just-cannot be put together again and by asking the Allies, who entered World War II avowedly to assist now crushed Poland, whether it is reasonable to fight on because they find Hitlerism intolerable...
...General Purpose." The prompt retorts of London and Paris were as different as the personal characters of Neville Chamberlain and Edouard Daladier...
...British War Secretary, Leslie Hore-Belisha, made a quick trip to Paris. Two days later the French members of the Supreme War Council, Premier Edouard Daladier and Generalissimo Maurice Gustave Gamelin, accompanied by several aides, flew secretly to England and met "somewhere in Sussex," in a quiet town hall, with their British colleagues. Munitions and food supply were said to have been the chief agenda. French mobilization was announced as having been finally completed (after 17 days of war), with 3,500,000 men under arms in a zone 15 to 30 miles deep behind the Maginot Line. Artillery pounding...