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Neville Chamberlain
Arthur Neville Chamberlain was 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. Follow…
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Born 18 March 1869 · Died 9 November 1940 · Q10664
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2026· 4 entries
“the only thing that matters is to win the war, though we may go bankrupt in the process.”
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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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2025· 2 entries
The Forward: Neville Chamberlain taught us where Trump’s appeasement of Putin could lead
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insider.si.edu: Neville Chamberlain
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2024· 1 entry
American Enterprise Institute: Neville Chamberlain and “True History”
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2018· 1 entry
“Questa mattina all'alba le truppe tedesche hanno attraversato la frontiera polacca e viene riferito che stanno bombardando le città indifese. In tali circostanze, per noi rimane aperta un'unica strada. (citato in AA.VV., Il libro della storia, traduzione di Roberto Sorgo, Gribaudo, 2018, p. 289. ISBN 9788858016572)”
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2016· 1 entry
Mental Floss: Neville Chamberlain: British Prime Minister, Downton Abbey Visitor
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2001· 1 entry
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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1967· 1 entry
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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1958· 1 entry
“[il «perfetto signore»] Può considerarsi un vero gentlemen colui il quale, partito per una escursione con il proprio domestico, volendo riposarsi, sceglie un prato per sé e un altro per il domestico. (citato in Storia Illustrata, Anno II N. 1, gennaio 1958, p. 93, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore)”
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1948· 1 entry
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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1941· 1 entry
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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1940· 10 entries
Died 1940-11-09.
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“This morning I had another talk with the German Chancellor, Herr Hitler, and here is the paper which bears his name upon it as well as mine.... We regard the agreement signed last night and the Anglo-German Naval Agreement, as symbolic of the desire of our two peoples never to go to war with one another again.”
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“When I was a little boy I used to repeat: "If at first you don't succeed, try, try, try again." That is what I am doing. When I come back I hope I may be able to say, as Hotspur said in Henry IV, "Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety.”
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“Quello che ammiro in Chamberlain è il suo successo come riformatore in politica interna; ritengo che gli storici siano stati troppo severi nel giudicarlo. [...] Non credo che egli fosse così ingenuo con Hitler come si dice ora, e guardo agli ammirevoli risultati delle sue riforme interne negli anni Venti. (John Major)”
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“Tutto ciò per cui ho lavorato, tutto ciò in cui ho sperato, tutto ciò in cui ho creduto nel corso della mia vita pubblica è andato in rovina.”
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“(Original engl.: "My good friends, for the second time in our history, a British Prime Minister has returned from Germany bringing peace with honour. I believe it is peace for our time... Go home and get a nice quiet sleep." - Chamberlain verlas dies vor seinen Amtssitz 10 Downing Street)”
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“In guerra, qualunque parte possa vantarsi di avere vinto, non ci sono vincitori, tutti sono perdenti.”
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“È tornata dalla Germania a Downing Street [la dimora ufficiale del Primo Ministro inglese a Londra] una pace con onore. Credo che sia pace per il nostro tempo.”
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“A dispetto della durezza e spietatezza che pensai di aver scorto nei suoi tratti, ebbi l'impressione di aver di fronte un uomo [Adolf Hitler] sul quale si può contare allorché ha dato la sua parola.”
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Career landmark: Lord President of the Council (1940–1940).
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1939· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctorate from the University of Strasbourg (1939).
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1938· 5 entries
“(Original engl.: "How horrible fantastic incredible it is that we should be digging trenches and trying on gas masks here because of a quarrel in a far away country between people of whom we know nothing. " - Radioansprache aus 10 Downing Street am 27. September 1938, youtube 2:18)”
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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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“Frieden für unsere Zeit!" - nach der Rückkehr von der Konferenz in München, 30. September 1938, byu.edu”
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“Ein ziemlich fernes Land, über das man wenig weiß." - über die Tschechoslowakei während der Sudetenkrise, 1938, zitiert bei Milan Kundera, cicero.de, 6/2007”
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1937· 4 entries
Career landmark: Leader of the Conservative Party (1937–1940).
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Career landmark: Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1937–1940).
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Career landmark: Leader of the House of Commons (1937–1940).
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“britischer Politiker, von 1937 bis 1940 Premierminister”
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1936· 2 entries
“Questi dittatori sono uomini dall'umore instabile. Se li cogli nell'umore giusto, sono pronti a darti qualsiasi cosa, ma se l'umore cambia, si chiudono come ostriche. (da un pro-memoria sul problema della revoca delle sanzioni all'Italia, inviato all'inizio di agosto 1936 a sir Robert Vansittart”
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“Le sanzioni sono morte, si tratta ora di provvedere al loro seppellimento. Ma qualche volta il funerale è più lungo e complicato di un'agonia. […] Sono d'accordo con voi. Bisogna ridurre al minimo la durata dei funerali societari. (da un colloquio con l'ambasciatore italiano a Londra Dino Grandi nel giugno 1936)”
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1935· 2 entries
Career landmark: member of the 37th Parliament of the United Kingdom (1935–1940).
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MacDonald stood down as prime minister, and Baldwin became prime minister for the third time
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1931· 4 entries
Career landmark: member of the 36th Parliament of the United Kingdom (1931–1935).
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Career landmark: Chancellor of the Exchequer (1931–1937).
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Career landmark: Secretary of State for Health and Social Care (1931–1931).
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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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1929· 2 entries
Chamberlain initiated the Local Government Act 1929 to abolish the Poor Law boards entirely
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Career landmark: member of the 35th Parliament of the United Kingdom (1929–1931).
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1927· 1 entry
“More and more do I feel an utter contempt for their lamentable stupidity.”
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1925· 1 entry
Became known as the "Conservative and Unionist Party"
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1924· 2 entries
Career landmark: member of the 34th Parliament of the United Kingdom (1924–1929).
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Career landmark: Secretary of State for Health and Social Care (1924–1929).
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1923· 4 entries
To Minister of Health and then Chancellor of the Exchequer
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Career landmark: member of the 33rd Parliament of the United Kingdom (1923–1924).
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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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1922· 2 entries
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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1918· 1 entry
Career landmark: member of the 31st Parliament of the United Kingdom (1918–1922).
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1916· 1 entry
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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1915· 3 entries
Chamberlain became Lord Mayor of Birmingham
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Career landmark: Lord Mayor of Birmingham (1915–1917).
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Chamberlain was appointed a member of the Central Control Board on liquor traffic
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1911· 1 entry
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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1910· 1 entry
Fell in love with Anne Cole, a recent connection by marriage, and married her the following year
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1907· 1 entry
Had married Anne Cole's uncle Alfred Clayton Cole, a director of the Bank of England
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1906· 1 entry
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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1889· 1 entry
His father apprenticed him to a firm of accountants
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1869· 1 entry
Born 1869-03-18.
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