The great war did not suggest that getting involved in a ruck in europe was really a very good idea. There was nobody in the 19 twenties and thirties arguing world war won had been a jolly good idea. So you could not have had a public opinion less favourable to fighting in foreign parts. Of course, it might have been open to the prime minister to have done what a late prime minister did, perhaps sexapadosie. Really, i would have thoughta generations, this generation, would know the folly of trying to take a country to war that does not want to go.
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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