War needed to be averted as much as possible, and the main aim of the Munich agreement had been to do their best to avoid this. In fact the pacification of Europe remained Prime Minister Chamberlain’s main issue throughout the “Peace for Our Time” speech....
Munich has become such a damning symbol that the personality and policies of Neville Chamberlain may never be fairly judged. 1 On the Munich Pact itself there can be no doubt—it cried out the weakness of France and Britain. 2 But it is false to carry over the aura of that capitulation ...
Chamberlain finally declared war on Germany after the invasion of Poland on Sep 1939, but the realization by then was already too late to prevent the conflict from growing into a major war. Returning from Munich after the agreement to deliver Sudetenland into German hands, he was quoted in ...
The meeting ended with Hitler, Chamberlain, Daladier and Mussolini signing theMunich Agreementwhich transferred the Sudetenland to Germany. "We, the German Führer and Chancellor and the British Prime Minister, have had a further meeting today and are agreed in recognizing that the question of Anglo...
Neville Chamberlain, prime minister of the United Kingdom from May 28, 1937, to May 10, 1940, whose name is identified with the policy of ‘appeasement’ toward Adolf Hitler’s Germany in the period immediately preceding World War II. Learn more about Ch
N. Smart, Neville Chamberlain V. Smetana, In the Shadow of Munich. British Policy towards Czechoslovakia from the Endorsement to the Renunciation of the Munich Agreement (1938–1942)Stanley Baldwin's tenure of office in 1923 had been brief. So, too, was his absence from it. In November ...
N. Smart, V. Smetana,doi:10.1080/09592296.2010.498314Peter NevilleUniversity of WestminsterDiplomacy & Statecraft