Word: edouard
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...Died. Edouard Daladier, 86, thrice Premier of France in the years from 1933 to 1940, and last surviving signer of the infamous Munich Agreement; of kidney disease; in Paris. After signing the agreement in 1938 with Chamberlain, Mussolini and Hitler, Daladier rationalized: "Should 15 million Europeans have been killed in order to oblige 3,000,000 Sudetens who wished to be German to remain in Czechoslovakia?" One year later, he came to the realization that, as he put it, "Hitler does not negotiate with nations which have submitted to him. He destroys them." By then it was too late. Daladier...