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...still Edouard Daladier, but he had grave doubts how much longer he would remain Premier of France. At that conference he had written off, as a total loss, the strong alliances which since the World War had kept France the biggest power in Europe. He had been caught in a corner, trapped because he had not dared break the first rule of modern French politics-never antagonize England. The French people might forgive Edouard Daladier for breaking his Government's word, pledged until only a fortnight before, that France would fight before yielding Czechoslovakia, but he could not expect...
After a few hours' sleep in Munich, Edouard Daladier flew back to Paris a worn, tired, nervous, scared man. In the plane he stiffened his courage by downing a few more pastis (a legal absinthe drink) than usual. As he alighted from the plane at Le Bourget, Paris airport, and saw a big crowd waiting, he grabbed the arm of an aide, exclaimed in apprehension: "My God, where are the Mobile Guards...
...been paid for peace. Daladier struck while the emotion was hot, called the French Parliament to a short, 23-hour session to ratify what he had done. Presented thus with an accomplished fact, the realistic deputies voted approval 535-to-75, almost lone objectors being the intransigent Communists. So Edouard Daladier stayed on as Premier of the France that had lost two cubits from her stature...
Elusive Promotion. Not many men get into politics as Edouard Daladier did, not many stay in by such shifts as he has made. He got in via the schoolroom door. His father was a baker in the town of Carpentras and he went to public schools. At the Lycée Duparc in Lyon one of his teachers was Edouard Herriot. By winning first in a history competition at the University of Nimes in 1909, young Daladier obtained an appointment as professor of history at Nimes and a fellowship to study in Rome. Professor Daladier, according to his pupils...
What M. Daladier wanted, he said, was a "blend of nationalism and democracy" in France: "It is our aim to reconcile the spirits which stormed the Bastille and defended Verdun." When the Popular Front won the elections of 1936, Edouard Daladier became War Minister, under Leon Blum, serving as part of France's New Deal which ousted the 200 families from control of the Bank of France, which established the , 40-hour week, which refused to crack down on sit-down strikers. When reaction to these measures finally forced out Socialist Blum for good, a less radical leader came...