Neville Chamberlain Biography
Born March 18, 1869
Birmingham, England
Died November 9, 1940
Hampshire, England
English statesman who was
prime minister from 1937 to 1940
Neville Chamberlain is best known for his failure to fend off war with dictators Benito Mussolini of Italy and Adolf Hitler of Germany. For many years his policy of compromise with these leaders—known as appeasement—was criticized and condemned, but recently some historians have suggested that it actually allowed England time to arm itself for the later conflict. Although those who didn't like Chamberlain's policies called him weak and blind to reality, others have claimed that he was really a man of integrity who had devoted his life to public service.
The son of a politician
The Chamberlain family had been shoemakers in the eighteenth century, and over the next 100 years or so they rose...
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