Analyse The Influence Of Nevil

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with the Dawes and Young plans. These policies tried to conciliate the Germans, as did the Locarno Peace treaties of 1925 - but the significant omission was that Britain did not agree to guarantee Germany's Eastern frontiers (which even Stresemann, the "good German" said must be revised).
When Chamberlain's half brother Austin, the then Foreign Minister, remarked in 1925 that "no British Government would risk the bones of a single British Grenadier in defence of the Polish Corridor" it seemed to Germany that Britain had turned it's back on Eastern Europe.
So it is clear that even before Chamberlain became Prime Minister that Britain had followed a foreign policy of appeasement.
In the earlier stages of appeasement there seemed much to commend it, and the appeasers, who included Macdonald, Baldwin, Sir John Simon (Foreign Secretary 1931-1935) Sir Samuel Hoare (Foreign Secretary June-December 1935) and later Lord Halifax (Foreign Secretary 1938 - 1940) were convinced of the ...

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was high, many felt that Italy and Germany had genuine grievances: Italy had been cheated at Versailles and Germany treated too harshly. It was therefore believed that Britain should react with sympathy, and try to revise the most hated clauses of Versailles. In turn it was thought that this would remove the need for German aggression and lead to Anglo-German friendship.
Since the League of Nations seemed to be helpless. Chamberlain believed that the only way to settle disputes was by personal contact between the leaders, and that in this way he would be able to control Hitler and Mussolini, bringing them to respect International Law.
However many now regard this as a mistake by ...

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