In defence of Neville Chamberlain
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I Think He Was a Man Whose Word Could Be Relied Upon
Chamberlain had an inkling when he died of how bad his reputation would be over the following half century. He thought quite a long time, after the norway debate, that he would come back and replace churchill. But by the end, i think he knew very well what his place in history was going to be. On it, carved by his instruction, are the words from a poem, mark me down as a man who loved his fellow men.
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