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Daladier

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Da·la·dier  (d-läd-, dä-lä-dy), Édouard 1884-1970.
French statesman who signed the Munich Pact with Adolf Hitler in September 1938. He was arrested by the Germans after the fall of France (1940) and remained in captivity until 1945.


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On August 9, the same paper gave as examples of the 1938 "spirit of appeasement" the "fantasies of Chamberlain, Daladier and Pope Plus.
In hopes of avoiding war, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain and French Premier Edouard Daladier decided to ignore threats against the Jews while seeking diplomatic compromise to achieve, as Chamberlain worded it, ``peace in our time.
As time went on, Roosevelt relied increasingly on Welles for all important foreign policy projects; it was Welles, not Hull, whom he dispatched to Europe in 1940 to sound out Hitler and Mussolini, Chamberlain and Daladier on the prospects for peace.
 
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