DALADIER, ÉDOUARD


Meaning of DALADIER, ÉDOUARD in English

born June 18, 1884, Carpentras, France

died Oct. 10, 1970, Paris

French politician.

He was elected to the Chamber of Deputies in 1919 as a member of the Radical Party, served in several different cabinets, and formed short-lived governments in 1933 and 1934. As premier (1938–40), he sought to avoid war by signing the Munich agreement . Arrested after France fell to Germany in World War II, he was imprisoned by the Germans until 1945. After the war he returned to the Chamber of Deputies (1946–58).

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