History Forum / General / British History / December 2006

Yes, there is simply no question about it -- the Brits have COLLECTIVE
AMNESIA concerning the General Election of 1935 -- their Last Chance to
Avoid The Impending Catastrophe.

That General Election of 1935 was an extremely important one and the results
were DISASTROUS.

DEEP DENIAL -- that's what we see today from the Brits about the General
Election of 1935.

BOTH choices, the Pacifist Labourites -- led by George Lansbury -- and the
Rank Appeasers -- led by Stanley Baldwin -- and later in 1937 by Neville
Chamberlain -- were unacceptable.  But they were the only choices the
British Electorate and the Parties would accept.

"Chamberlain is perhaps the most ill-regarded British Prime Minister of the
20th century, largely because of his policy of appeasement towards Nazi
Germany regarding the abandonment of Czechoslovakia to Hitler at Munich in
1938."

"Also in 1938 he gave up the Irish Free State Naval Ports, in practical
terms making it safe for German submarines to stay about 200 miles west of
the Irish coast (and therefore out of range of the British Navy) where they
could pick off the merchant marine at will."

How Ineluctably Stupid! -- DSH

"His unpopularity lead to his derogatory nickname "pinhead"."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neville_Chamberlain

Irreparable Damage Was Done In The General Election of 1935...

And Britain continued to enjoy the Long Holiday, which began in 1919 and
ended disastrously in 1939.

DSH

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