Piers brandon: Did the origins of this business of appeasement go back to 19 35? The british public was outraged by muselini's occupation of ethiopia. But Halifax got up in the house of lords and said that he couldn't impune the honour a great country. Glinstone: It would have been massively helpful if the americans had come in and helped us in the far east, but they failed to offer any real support for our rearmament. And there was no prospect of us being able to do that or of fighting a war.
As the new film, Munich – The Edge of War, hits Netflix screens starring Jeremy Irons as British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain negotiating on the brink of World War Two in 1938, we revisit an archive debate discussing that pivotal moment in history. Journalist and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Anne Applebaum is joined by a collection of celebrated historians to debate whether Chamberlain did the right thing in an impossible situation or appeased a dictator, leading to the disastrous years of conflict that followed.
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