France
Édouard Daladier
said
Two hundred families are masters of the French economy and, in fact, of French politics.
— Speech at the annual Congress of the Radical-Socialist Party in 1934. Quoted by William L. Shirer, (1969), p. 307.
Édouard Daladier
French politician (1884-1970)
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Lived 1884–1970, aged 86France
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Updated 2026-06-08
The French prime minister who signed away the Sudetenland at Munich in 1938, then declared war on Germany a year later when appeasement collapsed. His name is shorthand for the miscalculation that preceded the Second World War.
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Édouard Daladier was born in Carpentras in 1884 and fought on the Western Front during the First World War, decorated for his service. He rose through the Radical Party to become Prime Minister in 1933 and 1934, then served as Minister of Defence from 1936 to 1940 before returning to lead the government in 1938. Alongside Chamberlain, Mussolini, and Hitler, he signed the Munich Agreement that handed the Sudetenland to Nazi Germany. After Hitler invaded Poland in 1939, Britain and France declared war, but France's failure to aid Finland during the Winter War brought Daladier's resignation in Ma…
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