And I wonder how appeasement worked for Neville Chamberlain back in 1938? He brings back a worthless piece of paper with Hitler’s scrawl on it guaranteeing “peace in our lifetime” that lasted up until the next year. What an accomplishment…
And I wonder how appeasement worked for Neville Chamberlain back in 1938? He brings back a worthless piece of paper with Hitler’s scrawl on it guaranteeing “peace in our lifetime” that lasted up until the next year. What an accomplishment…
Neville Chamberlain crosses my mind every time I read of or hear some idiot "politician" suggest we just back off and let Putin have Ukraine.
For anyone unaware of that history, "Neville Chamberlain's appeasement was a diplomatic policy of making political, material, or territorial concessions to an aggressive power to avoid conflict. It was adopted by the British governments of Prime Ministers Ramsay MacDonald, Stanley Baldwin, and Neville Chamberlain between 1935 and 1939."
"[Chamberlain] is best known for his foreign policy of appeasement, and in particular for his signing of the Munich Agreement on 30 September 1938, ceding the German-speaking Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia to Nazi Germany led by Adolf Hitler. Following the German invasion of Poland on 1 September 1939, which marked the beginning of the Second World War, Chamberlain announced the declaration of war on Germany two days later ..." Wikipedia bio of Chamberlain
To defend him and remind us that we are all shades of grey and not black or white only, once Churchill became PM, Chamberlain supported him whole-heartedly despite his followers wanting him to sabotage Churchill, and Churchill records him as a "positive influence" in the Cabinet until his death. He quickly understood he was not the leader for wartime and could step aside and support the one who was. He even recommended Churchill to George VI despite everyone in the British Establishment's misgivings about Churchill.
And I wonder how appeasement worked for Neville Chamberlain back in 1938? He brings back a worthless piece of paper with Hitler’s scrawl on it guaranteeing “peace in our lifetime” that lasted up until the next year. What an accomplishment…
Neville Chamberlain crosses my mind every time I read of or hear some idiot "politician" suggest we just back off and let Putin have Ukraine.
For anyone unaware of that history, "Neville Chamberlain's appeasement was a diplomatic policy of making political, material, or territorial concessions to an aggressive power to avoid conflict. It was adopted by the British governments of Prime Ministers Ramsay MacDonald, Stanley Baldwin, and Neville Chamberlain between 1935 and 1939."
"[Chamberlain] is best known for his foreign policy of appeasement, and in particular for his signing of the Munich Agreement on 30 September 1938, ceding the German-speaking Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia to Nazi Germany led by Adolf Hitler. Following the German invasion of Poland on 1 September 1939, which marked the beginning of the Second World War, Chamberlain announced the declaration of war on Germany two days later ..." Wikipedia bio of Chamberlain
To defend him and remind us that we are all shades of grey and not black or white only, once Churchill became PM, Chamberlain supported him whole-heartedly despite his followers wanting him to sabotage Churchill, and Churchill records him as a "positive influence" in the Cabinet until his death. He quickly understood he was not the leader for wartime and could step aside and support the one who was. He even recommended Churchill to George VI despite everyone in the British Establishment's misgivings about Churchill.
Thank you for adding that.
The promises of a political hack…worth ZIP