Daladier, Édouard

Daladier, Édouard ( 1884 – 1970 )
French statesman. With Neville Chamberlain he yielded to Hitler's demands to annex the Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia in the Munich Pact ( 1938 ). He had served as a Radical Socialist in various ministries and was Premier in 1933 and 1934 and again in 1938 – 40 . Arrested by the Vichy government in 1940 , he was tried at Riom, together with other democratic leaders, accused of responsibility for France's military...

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