Neville Chamberlain has gone down in the popular imagination as one of the "guilty men", culpable for exposing his country to the costs and humiliation of near-defeat. Yet for most of his life Chamberlain enjoyed a very favourable reputation; appeasement and even Munich won widespread popular su...
To the extent that politics are, or may be seen as analogous to, theatre, their visual element is of central rather than merely peripheral significance, and style among their most important features.doi:10.1016/B978-0-08-022483-1.50017-7Paul Smith...
It is only in hindsight that Chamberlain receives such derogatory characterization (appeasement), and it’s primarily quoted here in the US. I find it a specious, phony argument. And, used only to bring in bogus comparisons to Adolf Hitler for rhetorical affect. When Great Britain did declare ...
Although he retained the confidence ofNeville Chamberlain, the Foreign Office considered him to be "too weak, too vain, too shallow, Henderson was regarded by most of his professional colleagues as being excessively susceptible to Nazi pressure". A member of theCliveden Set, he told his friends ...
Neville Chamberlain.2 However, Gibbs was inhibited, as the author of an official history, when dealing with political personalities, and, in particular, he could not directly confront the legend of Winston Churchill as the Cassandra of the period.3 What follows may be seen as a footnote to ...