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NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN 1869 - 1940

 

Neville Chamberlain 1869-1940

 


 

Arthur Neville Chamberlain was the British Prime Minister from May 28, 1937 to May 10, 1940. He resigned his political career because of ill health at the end of September 1940.

Chamberlain is best known for his policy of appeasement toward Italy and Germany right before  World War II.

 

Case in point was Chamberlain's optimistic little statement he delivered on September 30, 1938, after coming home from a meeting with nut  Adolf Hitler. Chamberlain stepped off his aircraft and gave what became known his  Peace in Our Time speech. Some call it the Peace for our time speech, and these individuals are mistaken.

Earlier that day, Hitler and Chamberlain had signed an understanding that assuring peace was in the interest of both their countries and that both men would aim to resolve their disagreements by discussing them.

The day before, on September 29, 1938, Chamberlain, Hitler,  Mussolini, and Daladier had signed the Munich Agreement, allowing Hitler to annex part of Czechoslovakia.

 

Not all of Chamberlain's countrymen agreed with his course of action.  Winston Churchill for one thought that this was not the right time to pussyfoot around.

Hitler's invasion of Poland on September 1, 1939, was quite the eye-opener. Later that day, Chamberlain gave a speech to the House of Commons, calling for  Action Rather Than Speech.

On September 3, 1939, at 11.15 AM, Chamberlain announced:

I am speaking to you from the Cabinet Room of 10 Downing Street.

This morning the British Ambassador in Berlin handed the German government a final note, stating that unless we heard from them - by 11 o'clock - that they were prepared at once to withdraw their troops from Poland, a state of war would exist between us.

I have to tell you now that no such undertaking has been received and that, consequently, this country is at war with Germany.


Here is the full radio speech:

 


 

The above mentioned British Ambassador in Berlin was Sir Nevile Henderson.

SIR NEVILE MEYRICK HENDERSON
SIR NEVILE MEYRICK HENDERSON

 

 

 

 

 

 

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