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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

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Édouard Daladier
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...serious riots in Paris and forced his resignation. In Apr., 1938, Daladier obtained the premiership and was also minister of national...1942), was interned by the Germans, and was liberated in 1945. Daladier was elected to the national assembly in 1946. He sat in the... Read more
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... Read more
Gaston Doumergue
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...in various cabinets before and during World War I. After serving as president he retired, but when the cabinet of Édouard Daladier fell in Feb., 1934, as a result of the Stavisky Affair , Doumergue was called on to be the strong man of France... Read more
Georges Bonnet
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...fiscal policy was partially responsible for the fall of the Chautemps government. As foreign minister (1938-39) in Édouard Daladier's cabinet, Bonnet helped to draft the Munich Pact, and as a member of the Vichy National Council (1941), he supported... Read more
Stavisky Affair
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...The rightists further alleged that Stavisky had been murdered to protect influential persons connected with him. Édouard Daladier , the new premier, used force to repress bloody riots staged (Feb. 6-7, 1934) in Paris by extremists (chiefly royalists... Read more