'I am speaking to you from the Cabinet Room of 10 Downing Street. This morning the British Ambassador in Berlin handed the German government a final note, stating that unless we heard from them ...

History isn't necessarily an eternal recommencement, but't is rich in lessons. The case of Neville Chamberlain who negotiated with Adolf Hitler in 1938 showed the limits of appeasement diplomacy.

Having negotiated the Munich Agreement and giving the Sudetenland to Germany, Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain returned to Britain promising ‘peace with honour’. Although Chamberlain did not ...