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FOR 21 YEARS HIS UMBRELLA HAS BEEN A SYMBOL OF SCORN...NOW THE QUESTION MUST BE ASKED -
TRAGEDY, according
to Aristotle, should depict a man's fall from high to low estate.
By that definition, no other figure in British history is so utterly tragic as the stern, beak-faced figure of Neville Chamberlain.
Twenty-three YUDTS werks after Chamberlain's
go.
umphant return 05 peace- maker irren Munich, the letters tdulation-the total reached 32.000-were still flooding intu Dawning-stree!
Wherever he went Cros si: cheered and wept.
in the store..
sweets shape!
I represent his umbrella We
sold úti hildren. Never in
peacetime had a British Premie aftained such worship
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That was in autumn 1938. But what a change just two years were to bring. Within two years Chamberlain
Was
dead, opwept and unlamented by all but a handful of his Countrymen.
Į Na Boots 1 patient cage 1ks he'd erase, if you wallis le Eroti 11 North Pole at mudbugh!
Juues can declare ain's Driven from the Premiership.
care Teslot. A had
kone down almost then the full dignily at husstantly with cancer. Dying
Bui ta mar Calling
end pain he watched his has suffered as Bodkin Adam.
Country apparently being over suffered, perhaps friendship such whelined He knew that almost 1. shape today brightest eve vuer put the blame un hin.
fhe was hissed in the streets.
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News- newspaper papers are the mirrors of the conscience of the decent people in the community.
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by the Queen Mother. spenk- Hind Government aid for
mversities at a London Uni- versity foundation-day Pere-
AL presen! there is a ehill wind blowing down While hall. Yet there was never a time in our history when higher education was more impartant. not only
To ensure our eranomie survival but also for promotion of international friendship.
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her...
for her
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He wrote "My friends all I look well. But i have lost my spring and my spirits there to suthing in look forward to."
for Chamberlain's even today its image
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The charge
by
Have we
misjudged this man?
ROBERT
PITMAN
"the
only thing
understand."
He declared: aphorism Force
Germans
"For the old 5 na remedy I would substitute The Fear of Force is the only remedy."
of
On this principle he made an unusual move for a Chancellor
the Exchequer
In 1934 he took the initiative
in draw- up programme Jor rearmament. Revising the Ser vice Estimates. he raised the proposed strength of the home Air Force by 50 per cent. In a private eller he explained:-
In the absence
of security
other
craft
nations won't give up air.
or bombing and we shall ore likely to deter Germany jrom mad-dogging if we have an Air Force which in case of need
A
That hardly fits the
Cai Loor peace-loving dupe trying to ward pleture of Chamberlain as off Hitler with an umbrella.
Opposition
Yet does Chamberlain deserve could bomb the Ruhr this
contempt? Until παν was among the millions
Who without hesitation would answer "Yes." It was clear to me from his public utterances that Chatti- berlain did not go to Munich in order to buy time in which to prepare our forces against Hit- Jer. His speeches showed that h genuinely trusted Hitler.
He trusted Hitler. That is the charge agains Chamberlain Chamberlain fawned un the Germans he tried to restram them with smiles when all they could understand was firmness and force. The result was that by 1939 he had left us
ubnost defenceless against then
Unanswerable reasons, it seemed, for holding Chamber- lain's memory in dishonour. On the evidence of his acts
pceches he stands condemned. morrow, however, a remark Tumorrow,
able
at
What were others saying the time? In 1939 the leader of the Labour Party way declaring: "I would close every recruiting station, disband the Army and dismiss the Air Force. i would say to the world 'Do
your woral"
That el
course W63 George Lansbury, the pacifist. But other
Labour voices were almost against Hitler, as opposed to
any preparation
and Herbert Morrison mocked
that "Mr Chamberlai ready and
has
wus
anxious to spend
destruction of
most erriably
have test Wat which was se enme
the
He reveals that privately Chamberlain said of the Munich
agreement: "If be signs it and sticks to it that will be fine, but if he breaks
that will convince
it
Americans of the kind of man he is."
Macleod's defence
of Munich
is no entirely convincing. Nor
far-fetched blity of
no
is his defence of Chamberlain's belict in the possi- securing Mussolini's Italy as an ally against Hitter.
He
makes
attempt for answer the charge that Cham- berlam preferred a Cabinet cronies
and toadies to alternative of rallying Churchill and such tough-minded Labour leaders as Driton behind hly policy of reurming while playing
for time
the
The
Yet he does restore Chamber- lain ON A man of patriotism. He
toughness. and honour. shows that this was indeed the of Jae Cbimberlain, 4eve Radical visionary.
sch
all honours; at
Neville, like his father, refused
Ars: he
WCE shocked when his half-brother Austen accepted the Garter. The achievement of Neville's proudest fife was the policy of protection and Empire trade by which ne hauled Britain back to pras perity from the world slump much more rapidly than Roose- velt's New Deal revived America
So ironical
j
Macleod rightly lays stress on the success of Chamberlain's protection policy--80 often ignored by Liberal historians. Не clearly feels that this reformist, non-aristocratic Tory was someone In the Macleod mould.
Which makes it doubly front- cal to consider that if anything
NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN
cameras at Heston as If it were s magic spell against all war? Did he not tell the trowds who mobbed him in Downing-street: has "I beklene it la pence for OUT time"?
Macleod answers that Chan-
ever woubled the patriolic spirit of Neville Chamberlain more than the opprobrium which followed his death, it has been anti-Empire
(London Express Service)
reappraisal goes beyond millions of pounds on machines berlam was simultaneously giv- the free-trading. the public speeches. It is Mr Iain Macleod's new biography.
He would ng orders for a rapid accelera- policies of Mr Macleod and his
death, tion in our delence programme Tory colleagues. NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN spend on the means of
but not on the means of life.”
--without which we would al- Frederick Muller, 301.), Draw-
Attlee echoed this view, Arthur ing in particular on Chamber -
Greenwood luin's private letters, it tells us
also singled out Chamberlain for what he
allack, was thinking. The said it was "the merest effect is astonishing.
mongering, disgraceful
Obsessed
Mucleod argues that there was one man in the British Govern. ment who was alive to the menace of Hitler even in 1933-- Neville Chamberlain.
He
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statesman in Mr Chamberlain's responsible position, to suggest that more millions of money needed to be spent ments."
on STMG-
'An insult'
He shows that, apari froin Churchill, there was one Tory
As for the Daily Herald, leader who was
Chamberlain's privately called
1935 obsessed with hatred of the
White-paper on Defence; "An Germans and mistrust of their risult to Germany." It added: Government Chamberlain,
"But let the world understand that this is not the voice of the British people."
That was written when Hitler had been in power for than 1wo years; when the pogroms had become a routine when the jackboots were busily drilling.
Above all he shows that it was Chamberisin who, from 1933 onwards, when he was Chancellor of the Exchequer, torced Britain into rearma- ment.
You may find this new view As dumbfounding as I did. It is like suddenly being told that Stalin was an undercover member of the British Liberals, or that Stafford Cripps was secrel drinker.
a
All however, except their redeemably pig-headed, must agree that the evidence is shattering
Let us
us return to the pear 1933, in Germany, Hitler had come to power. In Britain there were many people-Tory and Labour alike who were then
prepared to watch his experi- ment with approval.
One Minister, however, already
writing in
was
more
It
AN INSOLENT AND INSULTING'
EXPLANATION
Japan newsletter from David Gordon
Tokyo.
But the Herald was not alone. The Economist sorted Chamberlain
out The Governor of Ibaraki Prefecture is hopping jor blame. stated: " is certainly a repret-
mad along with the rest of the citizens. zable departure from British tradition that the Chanceller of
over a letter of "explanation" from Lt-Gen Jacob E. Smart, Commander of US Air the Exchequer should himself be the foremost advocate
of m. Forces in Japan, about the accidental strafing creased expenditure
on atma- menta,"
of Nakaminato City on Nov. 20 by an Alt Force bomber.
Wis
later to be despised for leaving
Thus Chamberlain--who
A B67 bomber on us defenceless, for ignoring the
a practice mission at a nearby gunnery German horror and for giving the world the impression that runge, went out of control over Britain would never use force and peppered the place
a busy section of Nakaminato
Was
at the time reviled for
with
and his guests who were fortunate enough to survive this exhibition of expert serial
his private gending too much on definim 20mm shells, Nobody was 'killed 'gunnery.
papers that Germany under
was up to her old tricks freating them as a menace, and lan were badly damaged.
for insulting the Germans by or injured but 8 houses and an again and was charging, a ferving the world the n
gesting, encouraging bloodshed
assassination, for her on Presion
aggrandisement and
દર્દ
sethion
pride."
Earlier, this
that force
cared about.
These
critics of Chambérian. explain that they wanted collec-
was all Not so smart
Businessmen In
Japan
have expressed hopes that the recent good-will visit of Minister had ve action by the League of his letter to the Governor, said Southeast Asian countries Smart-or not so smart-In Prime Minister Ikeda to written: "On the whole i wathe Nations instead of rearmament. the incident was not significant will lead to greatly ek Germans." Now he privil The pat After to
Pacts with all the States around
In comparison with the daily
Admittedly
described Hitler as a natier Kenined in by Bush defence trace accidents in the City ponded trade opportunities.. and "half-mad."
The Minister was Neville him. Chamberlain.
every Japanese However, more cautious folk Vary different, Chamberlain, however, city of any size is an absolute, are inclined to believe that Isn't it, from the gullible pro- Heved that collective action was trafle hell, but Jacob's breezy Japan's offers of assistance and German Chamberlain of poputur no more effective than the total way of writing off an incident technological guidance, will only legend?
strength of the places which which could have cost many prompt China to move more were collected together,
"Only remedy'
Move on to 1984, the
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by offering more liberal terri largely
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