- Neville Chamberlain
Arthur Neville Chamberlain (18 March 1869 - 9 November 1940), known as Neville Chamberlain, was a British Conservative politician and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1937 to 1940. Chamberlain's legacy is marked by his policy of appeasement towards Nazi Germany regarding the concession of Czechoslovakia to Adolf Hitler, marked by the Munich Agreement in 1938. In the same year he also gave up the Irish Free State Royal Navy ports. - Mike Farrell
Mike Farrell (born February 6, 1939) is an American actor, best known for his role as Captain B.J. Hunnicutt on the popular television series "M*A*S*H" (1975-83). More recently, Farrell has starred on television series "Providence" and "Desperate Housewives". - John Charmley
John Charmley (born 1955) is a British diplomatic historian and a professor of modern history at the University of East Anglia, where he is head of the school of history. Charmley's historical work has proved to be controversial, most notably his works on Churchill. - Desmond Morton
Major Sir Desmond Morton (1891 - 1971) was a British military officer and government official. He played an important role in organizing a response to appeasement of German under Hitler during the period prior to World War II, and provided intelligence information about German re-armament to Winston Churchill while Churchill was out of power. When Churchill became Prime Minister in 1940, Morton became his Personal Assistant. - Hans Oster
Hans Oster was deputy head of the Abwehr, under Wilhelm Canaris, and a dedicated opponent of Adolf Hitler and Nazism. He was a central resistance figure; as early as 1937 he was plotting a coup against Hitler, whereby Count Hans-Jürgen von Blumenthal and other officers would march into the Reich Chancellery and arrest him. The plan was aborted when the British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain adopted the policy of appeasement. After the outbreak of the Second World War, … - R. A. C. Parker
Robert Alexander Clarke Parker (Barnsley, Yorkshire, 15 June, 1927 - 23 April, 2001) was a British historian, specialising in British appeasement of Nazi Germany and the Second World War. Fellow historian Kenneth O. Morgan called him "perhaps the leading authority on the international crises of the 1930s, appeasement and the coming of war". - Eyre Crowe
Sir Eyre Alexander Barby Wichart Crowe, GCB, GCMG (30 July, 1864-28 April, 1925) was a British diplomat. Crowe was born in Leipzig and educated at Düsseldorf and Berlin and in France, with a German mother and a German wife. His father Joseph Archer Crowe had been a British consul-general and ended his career as commercial attache for all of Europe (1882-1896). His grandfather Eyre Evans Crowe was a journalist, writer and historian, and his uncle, Eyre Crowe, was an artist. - Adam Von Trott Zu Solz
Adam von Trott zu Solz was a lawyer and diplomat who opposed the Nazi regime. Born in Potsdam, Germany, he was the fifth child of leading Prussian civil servant August von Trott zu Solz. Adam went to the UK in 1931 on a Rhodes Scholarship to study at Balliol College, Oxford where he became close friends with David Astor. Following his studies at Oxford, von Trott went on to spend six months in the United States. He was a great-great-great grandson of John Jay, … - Vernon Bartlett
Charles Vernon Oldfield Bartlett CBE (30 April 1894, Westbury, Wiltshire - January 18, 1983) was an English journalist and politician. After education at Blundell's School Bartlett was invalided out of the Army in World War I. As a journalist he worked for the "Daily Mail", and was a foreign correspondent for "The Times". In 1922 he was appointed director of the London office of the League of Nations. - E. F. L. Wood 1st Earl of Halifax
Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax, KG, OM, GCSI, GCMG, GCIE, PC (16 April 1881-23 December 1959), known as The Lord Irwin from 1925 until 1934 and as The Viscount Halifax from 1934 until 1944, was a British Conservative politician. He is often regarded as one of the architects of appeasement prior to World War II. During the period he held several ministerial posts in the cabinet, … - Victor Cazalet
Victor Alexander Cazalet (27 December 1896 - 4 July 1943) was a British Conservative Party Member of Parliament (MP). Cazalet was a Captain during World War I. He was first elected at the 1924 general election, serving as MP for the Chippenham constituency in Wiltshire until his death. His sister, Thelma Cazalet-Keir was a noted feminist also and also a Conservative MP. During the Spanish Civil War, he was a strong supporter of General Franco and the fascists, … - Charles Petrie
Sir Charles Alexander Petrie, 3rd Baronet (September 28, 1895 - December 13, 1977) was a popular historian. Of Irish lineage, but born in Liverpool, he succeeded to the family baronetcy in 1927. He is known for his interest in monarchy, royalism and Jacobitism, and particularly for his 1926 essay in counterfactual history, "If: A Jacobite Fantasy". In the 1930s he flirted with the far right. He attended the 1932 Volta Conference (of fascists and sympathisers). - Paul Baudoin
Paul Baudoin was a French politician. An advocate of appeasement, Baudoin served as Marshal Pétain's first Minister of Foreign Affairs in 1940, and negotiated the armistice with the Germans. - Hugh Sinclair
Admiral Sir Hugh Sinclair, nicknamed Quex, was a British intelligence officer. Between 1919 and 1921, he was Director of British Naval Intelligence, and helped to set up the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS, commonly MI6) before the Second World War. Sinclair joined the Royal Navy in 1883, aged thirteen, and entered the Naval Intelligence Division at the beginning of the First World War. He became Director of the Division in February 1919, … - Fred Ellis
Fred Ellis (1885-1965) was an American political/editorial cartoonist. His cartoons spoke to many of the issues of the day, both international (World War II, appeasement, the atomic bomb, the Korean War, Nazi war crimes, Communism) and those close to the heart of the American working-class family (unions, low wages, worker safety, Social Security, political corruption). Ellis was part of the American Radical movement of the 1930s-1950s. - Horace John Wilson
Sir Horace John Wilson (1882-1972) was a British government official who had a key role in the appeasement-oriented government of Neville Chamberlain just prior to World War II. Wilson is a key character in Michael Dobbs' novel "Winston's War". In the book Wilson is portrayed as an arch-manipulator who has the telephones of all potential enemies to Neville Chamberlain tapped and will use any methods he can to get rid of Winston Churchill. - Walter H. Thompson
Detective Inspector Walter Henry Thompson (born 1890, died 1979) was the bodyguard of Winston Churchill for eighteen years between 1921 and 1945, being recalled from semi-retirement running two grocer's shops by a telegram from Churchill on 22 August 1939 reading "Meet me Croydon airport 4.30pm Wednesday." Although at that time Churchill had no official position in government, … - William Strang 1st Baron Strang
William Strang, 1st Baron Strang GCMG, KCB (2 January 1893-27 May, 1978) was a British diplomat who served as a leading adviser to the British Government from the 1930s to the 1950s and as Permanent Under-Secretary at the Foreign Office from 1949 to 1953. Strang was the eldest son of James Strang, a farmer, and his wife Margaret Steven, daughter of William Steven. He was educated at Palmer's School, University College, London and at the Sorbonne. - Tom Horabin
Thomas Lewis Horabin (1896 - 26 April 1956) was a British Liberal politician who defected to the Labour Party. Horabin was educated at Cardiff High School and became a civil servant and later a business consultant. Following the death of Liberal Member of Parliament, Sir Francis Acland in 1939, Horabin was selected by North Cornwall Liberals to defend the marginal seat at the following by-election. Along with his party leader, Sir Archibald Sinclair, … - Dominick Browne 4th Baron Oranmore and Browne
Dominick Geoffrey Edward Browne, 4th Baron Oranmore and Browne (October 21 1901 - August 7 2002) was the longest serving British peer and legislator. Born the Hon. Dominick Geoffrey Edward Browne in 1901, the eldest son of the 3rd Lord Oranmore and Browne and Lady Olwen Verena Ponsonby, daughter of Edward Ponsonby, 8th Earl of Bessborough. He was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford before joining the Grenadier Guards. - Kelly Schaeffer
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