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.

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