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To: Win Smith who wrote (192050)	7/19/2006 2:17:58 AM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) of 281500

From William Manchester's bio of Churchill Alone: Hitler, Baldwin's audiences were reassured, was not the menace he had been made out: "There may be Governments deliberately planning the future, leading reluctant or unsuspecting people into the shambles....I confess in my own political experience I have not encountered Governments possessed of all these malevolent qualities. Most Governments seem not much better or worse than the people they govern." To those like Leo Amery, who privately predicted that appeasement might encourage dictators, Chamberlain, speaking for the prime minister, heatedly replied that this was a "mischievous distortion." The choice, he said, was "whether we shall make one last effort at Geneva for peace and security" or submit in a "cowardly surrender" to warmongerism, which would hold them up to "the shame of our children and our children's children." It was Chamberlain's strength that he never doubted that events would vindicate him; it was his fate that they would condemn him. Baldwin was the same, and the tragedy for both was that they lived long enough to know it. So Sneer Guy, what do you say now?

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