Munich Accords: Daladier was not a coward. The Munich agreements, certainly inglorious, are presented today in the tone of a prosecutor drawing up an indictment in a simplistic and Manichean manner.
Experiencing a feeling of superiority over the past because we know what happens next does not help us understand it. Overwhelming Daladier to prove that we ourselves are the standard bearer of morality in politics is a regrettable rhetorical facility. How to explain the tragedy of Munich in 1938? Who was Daladier, what…