Chamberlain (and Halifax) may have taken a lot of guff from the war hawks after Czechosloavkia, and wanted to put his foot down on Poland. I don't know that they were concerned at all with Churchill's straights or aware of who subsidized him, but they saw reason for a peaceful resolution given Hitler's generous terms, and the German carp…
Chamberlain (and Halifax) may have taken a lot of guff from the war hawks after Czechosloavkia, and wanted to put his foot down on Poland. I don't know that they were concerned at all with Churchill's straights or aware of who subsidized him, but they saw reason for a peaceful resolution given Hitler's generous terms, and the German carpet bombing of leaflets for those terms across Britain appealed to a majority of Brits, tired of war. Churchill wouldn't have it. Chamberlain was already ill by then and died in Nov 40'
Chamberlain (and Halifax) may have taken a lot of guff from the war hawks after Czechosloavkia, and wanted to put his foot down on Poland. I don't know that they were concerned at all with Churchill's straights or aware of who subsidized him, but they saw reason for a peaceful resolution given Hitler's generous terms, and the German carpet bombing of leaflets for those terms across Britain appealed to a majority of Brits, tired of war. Churchill wouldn't have it. Chamberlain was already ill by then and died in Nov 40'