Neville Chamberlain Quotes


I have only to raise a finger and the whole face of Europe is changed.


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Neville Chamberlain, 1869-1940, British Prime Minister (Conservative), Quoted in Keith Middlemas, Diplomacy of Illusion

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Neville Chamberlain
  • Born: March 18, 1869
  • Died: November 9, 1940
  • Nationality: British
  • Profession: Politician

Arthur Neville Chamberlain FRS was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Conservative Party from 1937 to 1940. He is best known for his foreign policy of appeasement, and in particular for his signing of the Munich Agreement on 30 September 1938, conceding the German-speaking Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia to Germany. Following the German invasion of Poland on 1 September 1939, which marked the beginning of World War II, 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.