“An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile — hoping it will eat him last.”

In Reader's Digest (December 1954).
Post-war years (1945–1955)
Variant: An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.

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Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1874–1965

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