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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...
...rest of the proceedings at Montélimar. indicated a high degree of unanimity between the President and his Premier. Premier Edouard Daladier eulogized him. In return M. Lebrun, who had recently been exposed to Neville Chamberlain's belated distrust of the dictators, came out strongly against aggressors, and praised the strong reply of Premier Daladier to Benito Mussolini's declaration on Italy's colonial issues (TIME, April 3). M. Daladier had said quite flatly and unexcitedly over the air that: 1) France would willingly discuss Italy's demands as soon as Italy clarified them...
...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...
...Germans have about 1,000,000 men under arms continually, have called up another 500,000. Italy has mobilized several classes. Just to make the mobilization general, French Premier Edouard Daladier, under his new decree powers, had poured thousands of special reservists into frontier defenses...
...France Premier Edouard Daladier, discarding protests as mere "words, words, words," went before Parliament and obtained dictatorial powers to permit him to act secretly and promptly to forestall any further Nazi or Fascist moves. He was expected to put France on a virtual wartime footing, to call up extra men to the colors, to speed arms production. The French toyed with the idea of building up a strong Eastern European entente of Poland, Rumania and Yugoslavia...