“the only thing that matters is to win the war, though we may go bankrupt in the process.”
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Neville Chamberlain
Arthur Neville Chamberlain was a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from May 1937 to May 1940 and Leader of the Conservative Party from May 1937 to October 1940. He is 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 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 and led the United Kingdom through the first eight months of the war until his resignation as prime minister on 10 May 1940.
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Born 18 March 1869 · Died 9 November 1940 · Q10664
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“meeting with Herr Hitler had been most unsatisfactory”
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The Globe and Mail: Opinion: Concession Carney faces his Neville Chamberlain moment
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American Enterprise Institute: Neville Chamberlain and “True History”
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As "the most impressive and persuasive single-volume biography" of Chamberlain (completed during the war and published in 1946), he could not repair the damage already done to Chamberlain's reputation
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Made available many of the papers of the Chamberlain government over the subsequent three years, helping to explain why Chamberlain acted as he did
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With the publication of The Gathering Storm, the first volume of Churchill's six-volume set, The Second World War, Chamberlain sustained an even more serious assault from the right
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Took a similar tack to Guilty Men, arguing that Liberal and Labour MPs, and a small number of Conservatives, had fought against Chamberlain's appeasement policies
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Died 1940-11-09.
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Career landmark: Lord President of the Council (1940–1940).
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Awarded honorary doctorate from the University of Strasbourg (1939).
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Parliament enacted the Coal Act 1938, which allowed for nationalisation of coal deposits
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Would have been disastrous as the UK was unprepared
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Career landmark: Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1937–1940).
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Career landmark: Leader of the Conservative Party (1937–1940).
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Career landmark: Leader of the House of Commons (1937–1940).
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MacDonald stood down as prime minister, and Baldwin became prime minister for the third time
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Career landmark: member of the 37th Parliament of the United Kingdom (1935–1940).
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Career landmark: Chancellor of the Exchequer (1931–1937).
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The MacDonald government faced a serious crisis as the May Report revealed that the budget was unbalanced, with an expected shortfall of £120 million
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Career landmark: Secretary of State for Health and Social Care (1931–1931).
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Career landmark: member of the 36th Parliament of the United Kingdom (1931–1935).
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Career landmark: member of the 35th Parliament of the United Kingdom (1929–1931).
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Chamberlain initiated the Local Government Act 1929 to abolish the Poor Law boards entirely
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“More and more do I feel an utter contempt for their lamentable stupidity.”
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Became known as the "Conservative and Unionist Party"
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Career landmark: Secretary of State for Health and Social Care (1924–1929).
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Career landmark: member of the 34th Parliament of the United Kingdom (1924–1929).
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To Minister of Health and then Chancellor of the Exchequer
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Career landmark: Chancellor of the Exchequer (1923–1924).
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Career landmark: Secretary of State for Health and Social Care (1923–1923).
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Career landmark: member of the 33rd Parliament of the United Kingdom (1923–1924).
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Career landmark: Postmaster General of the United Kingdom (1922–1923).
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Career landmark: member of the 32nd Parliament of the United Kingdom (1922–1923).
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Career landmark: member of the 31st Parliament of the United Kingdom (1918–1922).
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And 1917, Chamberlain followed his father Joseph Chamberlain and elder half-brother Austen Chamberlain in becoming a member of Parliament at the 1918 general election for the new Birmingham Ladywood division at the age o
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Chamberlain was appointed a member of the Central Control Board on liquor traffic
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Chamberlain became Lord Mayor of Birmingham
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Career landmark: Lord Mayor of Birmingham (1915–1917).
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Neville Chamberlain successfully stood as a Liberal Unionist for Birmingham City Council for the All Saints' Ward, located within his father's parliamentary constituency
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Fell in love with Anne Cole, a recent connection by marriage, and married her the following year
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Had married Anne Cole's uncle Alfred Clayton Cole, a director of the Bank of England
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As Governor of Birmingham General Hospital, and along with "no more than fifteen" other dignitaries, Chamberlain became a founding member of the national United Hospitals Committee of the British Medical Association
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Studied at Rugby School.
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Studied at University of London.
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Career landmark: Member of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom.
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Studied at Mason Science College.
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Studied at University of Birmingham.
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His father apprenticed him to a firm of accountants
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Born 1869-03-18.
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