“As you know I have always been more afraid of a peace offer than of an air raid.”

—  Neville Chamberlain

Letter to Ida Chamberlain (8 October 1939), quoted in Maurice Cowling, The Impact of Hitler. British Politics and British Policy. 1933-1940 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1975), p. 355.
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