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A candid letter by Neville Chamberlain saying Britain was better off without him as prime minister has emerged 85 years later. The beleaguered politician made the painful admission four days after ...

In September 1938, United Kingdom Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain sealed his legacy as history’s exemplar of appeasement and the dangers it engenders. Adolf Hitler had massed hundreds of ...

LONDON, May 10, 1940 (UP) - Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain resigned tonight and Winston Churchill agreed to form a new government. The new government - it was agreed without exception - shall ...

'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 ...

Against this backdrop of tension, the British prime minister, Neville Chamberlain, flew to Germany to meet with Hitler. As each of Hitler’s demands were met by the British, he kept increasing ...

His use of the term appeasement echoed the criticism of British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, who conceded Germany’s annexation of Czechoslovakia’s Sudetenland in 1938 before World War II.

No Czechoslovakian representative was involved. Upon concluding, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain returned from Munich, hailed by his supporters for securing “peace in our time” by ...

And comparisons have been made to former British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's negotiated peace treaty with Adolf Hitler's Germany, a policy of appeasement with the Nazis, much celebrated ...