Chamberlain Dies: Architect of Appeasement Passes
Neville Chamberlain died six months after resigning as Prime Minister, forever associated with the Munich Agreement that ceded Czechoslovakia to Hitler in pursuit of "peace for our time." His appeasement policy, though widely supported at the time, became the defining cautionary tale against negotiating with aggressors.
November 9, 1940
86 years ago
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