DALADIER, EDOUARD (1884— ), French politician, was in early life a secondary-school teacher. He was elected Radical-Socialist deputy for Vaucluse in 1919. He was minister for the colonies in the Herriot cabinet of 1924, minister of war in the reconstructed Painleve cabinet of Oct. 1925 and of public instruction in the Briand cabinet of Nov. 1925. He was closely associated with Herriot and, like him, an intellectual. His social creed was anti-clerical and "egalitaire"; he believed in the elimina tion of class distinctions by uniformity in education and equality of opportunity for all classes. He was one of the small group of Radical-Socialists who regularly voted against the measures of the Poincare cabinet of "national union." At the national congress of the Radical-Socialist Party in Oct. 1927 Daladier was elected president of the party, and recommended co-operation in the elections with the parties of the Left to oppose Poincare's finan cial policy. Prime minister for brief periods in 1931, 1933 and he again took that office in April 1938.