Word: mitteleuropa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Three Times in 70 Years. Hunched, acerbic ex-Premier Edouard Daladier rose from the benches of the moderate Radical Party. "If Germany prefers the European Army," he cried, "it is because she has the certainty of establishing her hegemony over Mitteleuropa, reconstituted by our efforts . . . The Russian soldier has never set boot on French soil since the duel which opposed Czar Alexander to the Emperor Napoleon. The German soldier has invaded it three times in 70 years." This line so pleased the Communists in the Assembly that, for the time being at least, they stopped calling Daladier...