édouard daladier (18 june 1884 - 10 october 1970) was a politician, who was the prime minister of france at the start of the second world war. he was one of the politicians in france who tried to stop the war and signed the munich agreement at a conference in 1938, together with british prime minister neville chamberlain, as well as the dictators of germany and italy: adolf hitler and benito mussolini.