Word: chamberlaine
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...Neville Chamberlain was lucky to have died when he did. Had he lived beyond 1940, the man with the umbrella would hardly have survived his critics. E. H. Carr has reprimanded him, A.J.P. Taylor has roasted him, and J.F.K. '40 has stuck him with pins. Now, as if all this weren't enough, two young British historians have kicked his living daylights...
...bitter and damnable truth" about the British appeasement of Hitler before World War II. The facts are the same old ones, but the authors dress them up more shockingly than ever. Their story is a disgusting one, a history of miscalculation and misdirection. But if the saga of Chamberlain and his cohorts is frightening, so is the shoddy reasoning and judgment of the authors...
Backbone Added. In 1937 Home became Neville Chamberlain's parliamentary private secretary. It was he who handed the Prime Minister Hitler's message setting up the Munich meeting in 1938, and Home accompanied his boss to the ill-fated conference. The Home family motto is True to the End, and Home still defends Chamberlain's at tempt to make a deal with Hitler. "Chamberlain," he says, "hated Hitler and Fascism, but he felt that Europe in general and Britain in particular were in even greater danger from Communism." In wartime, Major Lord Home was invalided...
...seems the inevitable fate of lead articles in such publications, discusses peaceful co-existence and makes the usual telling points. Joseph Stalin was not a very nice guy. Khrushchev didn't use to be a very nice guy and probably hasn't changed much. Peaceful co-existence, William Henry Chamberlain goes on, is not the same thing as a Russian surrender. Khrushchev has committed himself to refraining from those particular forms of conflict which are most likely to incinerate the globe. The fact that this accomplishment, although limited, is not completely without utility is grudgingly admitted in the last paragraph...
...Chamberlain does not mention, even in passing, the possibility that the Soviet Union might not always find it expedient to follow its announced policy. He fails to consider the Sino-Soviet split at all. It may well be true that Khrushchev has not abandoned any of the Soviet Union's old foreign policy goals, but he has certainly reordered their relative priorities...