Neville Chamberlain

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Neville Chamberlain


Born
in Edgbaston, Birmingham, England, The United Kingdom
March 18, 1869

Died
November 09, 1940


Arthur Neville Chamberlain was a British Conservative politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from May 1937 to May 1940. Chamberlain is best known for his appeasement foreign policy, and in particular for his signing of the Munich Agreement in 1938, conceding the German-speaking Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia to Germany.
After working in business and local government and after a short spell as Director of National Service in 1916 and 1917, Chamberlain followed his father, Joseph Chamberlain, and older half-brother, Austen Chamberlain, in becoming a member of parliament in the 1918 general election at age 49. He was rapidly promoted in 1923 to Minister of Health and then Chancellor of the Exchequer. After a short L
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In Search Of Peace

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“When life give you hundred reasons to cry, show life thousand reasons to smile.”
Neville Chamberlain, In Search Of Peace
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“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. It seems still more impossible that a quarrel which has already been settled in principle should be the subject of war.”
Neville Chamberlain

“This is the second time in our history that there has come back from Germany to Downing Street peace with honour. I believe it is peace in our time.”
Neville Chamberlain

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