Andrew Crozier argues we need to rethink our understanding of Neville Chamberlain, his policies and the nature and objectives of appeasement.
Neville Chamberlain has been indelibly associated with appeasement since his death in 1940. Yet what Chamberlain meant by appeasement has been largely (and sometimes deliberately) obscured. For instance, he was arguing for regime change in Germany as the only basis for a settlement from the summer of 1939, before the outbreak of war.
Andrew Crozier is Distinguished Research Scholar at New York University and his publications include Appeasement and Germany's Last Bid for Colonies (1988) and The Causes of the Second World War (1997). In this foretaste of his forthcoming new biography of Neville Chamberlain, he argues that we need to reappraise the character and the policies of this controversial figure.
This includes not only his preparations for war in the 1930s, but also his rejection of area bombing, and the relationship between his economic policies as Chancellor of the Exchequer 1931-37 and the ideas then being promoted by John Maynard Keynes.
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