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Édouard Daladier
Édouard Daladier , 1884-1970, French politician, a Radical Socialist. After World War I he was a member of successive French cabinets. He was premier from Jan. to Oct., 1933, and again from Jan. to Feb., 1934, when the Stavisky Affair , which did not implicate him personally, caused serious ... Read more
Paul Reynaud
Paul Reynaud , 1878-1966, French statesman and lawyer. He held several cabinet posts, and after Nov., 1938, as minister of finance in the cabinet of Édouard Daladier , he pursued an extremely deflationary policy. During World War II he succeeded Daladier as premier in Mar., 1940. On May 18, ... Read more
Gaston Doumergue
Gaston Doumergue , 1863-1937, president of the French republic (1924-31). He entered national politics in 1893 as a Radical Socialist deputy and served in various cabinets before and during World War I. After serving as president he retired, but when the cabinet of Édouard Daladier fell in ... Read more
Georges Bonnet
Georges Bonnet , 1889-1973, French politician. He entered politics as a Radical Socialist. A financial expert, he was prominent at international conferences on reparations and other economic questions. He was ambassador (1937) to the United States and several times finance minister, notably in the C... Read more
Munich Pact
Munich Pact 1938. In the summer of 1938, Chancellor Hitler of Germany began openly to support the demands of Germans living in the Sudetenland (see Sudetes ) of Czechoslovakia for an improved status. In September, Hitler demanded self-determination for the Sudetenland. Disorders broke out in Cze... Read more
France
France , officially French Republic, republic (2005 est. pop. 60,656,000), 211,207 sq mi (547,026 sq km), W Europe. France is bordered by the English Channel (N), the Atlantic Ocean and the Bay of Biscay (W), Spain and Andorra (SW), the Mediterranean Sea (S), Switzerland and Italy (SE), and Germany,... Read more

Encyclopedia entries related to "Daladier,"

édouard Daladier
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography é douard Daladier The French statesman é douard Daladier (1884-1970) represented his country at the Munich...September 1938. The son of a baker, é douard Daladier was born on June 18, 1884, at Carpentras. An ardent...
Daladier, Édouard
Book article from: World Encyclopedia Daladier, Édouard (1884–...1934, 1938–40). In 1934, Daladier was forced to resign after failing to...signed the Munich Agreement (1938). Daladier again resigned after his failure to help...
Édouard Daladier
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Édouard Daladier , 1884-1970, French politician...his resignation. In Apr., 1938, Daladier obtained the premiership and was also...Germans, and was liberated in 1945. Daladier was elected to the national assembly...
Daladier, Edouard
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to World War II Daladier, Edouard (1884–1970),French politician who became a radical socialist deputy for his native Vaucluse after the...
France
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to World War II ...September 1939 by the government of Edouard Daladier was received by the French with a mixture...than other public spending, and under Daladier in 1938–9 the defence budget was trebled. Daladier, unlike Chamberlain , brought back no...
Reynaud, Paul
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to World War II ...more aggressively minded Reynaud succeeded Daladier as head of the French government on 21 March...miracles.’ On 20 May he moved Daladier to the foreign ministry and took Daladier's post as minister of national defence and...
Paul Reynaud
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...Nov., 1938, as minister of finance in the cabinet of Édouard Daladier , he pursued an extremely deflationary policy. During World War II he succeeded Daladier as premier in Mar., 1940. On May 18, as France faced military disaster...
Gamelin, General Maurice-Gustave
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to World War II ...won the 1936 elections. Fashioning a close partnership with Daladier , the Radical Party leader and Popular Front defence minister...Nazi–Soviet Pact in August 1939, Gamelin told Daladier—by this time prime minister—that France...
phoney war
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to World War II ...Supreme War Council the French were adamant that this operation (ROYAL MARINE) should not proceed. The French prime minister, Daladier , told Churchill that the ‘President of the Republic himself had intervened, and that no aggressive action must...
Riom
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...the capital of the dukes of Auvergne. In 1942, Riom was the scene of an abortive trial of French leaders (including Blum, Daladier, and Gamelin) by the Vichy government. The defendants, charged with plunging France into World War II unprepared, produced...

Dictionary entries related to "Daladier,"

Daladier, Édouard
Book article from: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History Daladier, Édouard (b. 18 June 1884, d. 10 Oct. 1970). Prime Minister of France 1933, 1934, 1938–40 A Radical...
France
Book article from: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History ...as well as unprecedented social legislation, further alarmed and alienated many supporters of the right from the Republic. Daladier's policies of appeasement which contributed to the Munich Agreement of 1938 were unsuccessful. In September 1939 France...
Stavisky Scandal
Book article from: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History ...demonstrations, the most violent was on 6 February 1934, when fourteen people were killed and over 230 wounded. Prime Minister Daladier , himself appointed to handle the crisis a few weeks earlier, resigned. It took a ‘government of national unity...
Munich Agreement
Book article from: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History ...conflict. At their final meeting in Munich, at which an agreement was signed, Mussolini and the French Prime Minister, E. Daladier , were also present. Hitler was allowed to annex the Sudetenland, but not the entire Czech lands. War had been avoided...
Riom Trial
Book article from: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History ...1942) Trials held in the French town of Riom, in which prominent representatives of the Third Republic, such as Blum , Daladier , and Gamelin were accused by the Vichy government of causing the French defeat in 1940. The defendants turned the tables...
Munich Pact
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...Chamberlain appealed to MUSSOLINI , who organized a conference at Munich where he, Chamberlain, and Hitler were joined by Daladier, the French Premier. No Czech or Soviet representative was invited. Hitler gained most of what he wanted and on 1 October...
appeasement
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...appeasement The efforts by the British Prime Minister, Neville CHAMBERLAIN , and his French counterpart, Édouard Daladier, to satisfy the demands (1936–39) of the AXIS POWERS . Their policy of appeasement enabled Hitler to occupy...
Reynaud, Paul
Book article from: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History ...engineered an economic recovery through undoing much of the social legislation of the Popular Front government . He opposed Daladier's policy of appeasement, and took over from him to become the last Prime Minister of the Third Republic in March 1940...

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IN OUR PAGES: 100, 75 AND 50 YEARS AGO 1933: Daladier Cabinet Falls
Newspaper article from: ; 10/24/2008; ; 273 words ; ...PAGES: 100, 75 AND 50 YEARS AGO 1933: Daladier Cabinet Falls Byline: International...Edition: 1 Section: NEWS PARIS: -- The Daladier cabinet fell at 2:40 this morning...salaries. Before going down, M. Daladier, visibly tired after the uncertainties...
Security gone crazy
Newspaper article from: Jerusalem Post; 2/9/1995; ; 700+ words ; ...anything," as one-time French premier Edouard Daladier might have said. Daladier was a delegate at the notorious September 1938...Mussolini, which promised "peace in our time." Daladier wasn't keen to return to France. He knew that...
DESPITE MUNICH'S LEGACY, ACCOMMODATION HAS A PLACE MEETING 50 YEARS AGO HELPED BREED WORLD WAR II.(Main)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); 10/2/1988; 700+ words ; ...Chamberlain and French Premier Edouard Daladier, Mussolini and Hitler met that day and...to yield to Hitler, Chamberlain and Daladier deliberately ignored their own previous...in a matter of weeks. Chamberlain and Daladier were basically men of good will who were...
Putin's struggles with Soviet history.
Newspaper article from: Gulf News (United Arab Emirates); 9/21/2009; 700+ words ; ...sure, Britain's Neville Chamberlain and France's Edouard Daladier signed a shameful treaty with Hitler and Mussolini in Munich. But when Hitler breached the treaty, both Chamberlain and Daladier lost popular support, and, by the start of the Second World...
ASSURING THE PEACE OF EUROPE REJOICING GREETS THE RESULTS OF MUNICH TALKS ANGLO-GERMAN PLEDGE AGAINST WAR MILITARY ACTION THREATENED BY POLAND October 1.
Newspaper article from: The Birmingham Post (England); 11/14/1998; 700+ words ; ...have accepted unhe ard of sacrifices imposed upon us." M. Daladier's return to Paris and Signor Mussolini's arrival in Rome...The French Council of Ministers met and congratulated M. Daladier on the part he had played in the success achieved at Munich...
CSCE Summit: Paris denies accusation of appeasement
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 12/7/1994; ; 634 words ; ...peace to Bosnia to the way Neville Chamberlain and Edouard Daladier, the British and French prime ministers in 1938, appeased...sadly famous image, that of the Munich meeting in 1938, when Daladier and Chamberlain, representatives of the same Western democracies...
You can quote me on that
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 4/14/1995; ; 700+ words ; ...phrase "a phoney war" was coined by the French leader Edouard Daladier in 1939, when he described the stalemate between Germany and...that a conversation must have taken place along these lines: Daladier: Oui, c'est une drle de guerre! Churchill: What's he...
That worthless piece of paper
Magazine article from: The Spectator; 9/27/2008; ; 700+ words ; ...commendation of Chamberlain and his French counterpart, Edouard Daladier. Thus there was always an air of unreality about Chamberlain...signed up to the diplomatic niceties, let Chamberlain and Daladier fly home to bask in the battery of flashbulbs, then proceeded...
The nowhere man in one of the 20th century's great tragedies
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 10/22/2008; ; 572 words ; ...hard-pressed to name. The French Prime Minister Edouard Daladier returned with the same illusory promise of peace that Chamberlain...those with whom he is supposedly sealing a historic pact. Daladier, on his return to Paris, was hailed as a hero, the man who...
Focus:Power that is impotent in the modern world
Newspaper article from: The Scotsman; 7/19/2006; ; 700+ words ; ...agreement represented "peace in our time". In contrast, Daladier was amazed to be cheered by the crowd waiting for him at Le...Munich, did Chamberlain say, "we've done a good job, Daladier", and did the French premier reply, "if you believe that...