Édouard Daladier

Daladier in the 1930s

Édouard Daladier (French: [edwaʁ daladje]; 18 June 1884 – 10 October 1970) was a French Radical-Socialist (centre-left) politician and the Prime Minister of France at the outbreak of World War II.

Quotes

• If the blood of France and of Germany flows again, as it did twenty-five years ago, in a longer and even more murderous war, each of the two peoples will fight with confidence in its own victory, but the most certain victors will be the forces of destruction and barbarism.
  • Quoted by William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany. (Volume 2) p. 568

• Two hundred families are masters of the French economy and, in fact, of French politics. They constitute a force which a democratic state should not tolerate, which Richelieu would not have tolerated in the kingdom of France. The influence of the two hundred families weighs heavily on the fiscal system, on transportation, on credit. The two hundred families place their delegates in the seats of power. They operate on public opinion, for they control the press.
  • Speech at the annual Congress of the Radical-Socialist Party in 1934. Quoted by William L. Shirer, The Collapse of the Third Republic (1969), p. 307.

External links

Encyclopedic article on Édouard Daladier on Wikipedia