Pierre Etiennce Flandin and Edouard Dladier: A Comparative Political Biography

FAIN: FT-13671-78

Philip C. Bankwitz
Trinity College (Hartford, CT 06106-3100)

To complete a comparative political study of the careers and lives of two major figures in the history of the decadent Third Republic of the 1930s. Flandin was Foreign Minister at the time of the Ethiopian and Rhineland crisis of 1935-36 and Chef du Gouvernement at Vichy in 1940-41. Daladier was the unofficial leader during the 1930s of the Radical Socialist Party which occupied the center of the French-political spectrum from the end of the Dreyfus Affair to 1940. This work will concentrate on French political history of the 1930s—seeking to clear up misunderstanding regarding this period of history.