“Neville annoys me by mouthing the arguments of complete pacifism while piling up armaments.”

— Neville Chamberlain

Clement Attlee in a letter to Tom Attlee (22 February 1939), quoted in Maurice Cowling, The Impact of Hitler. British Politics and British Policy. 1933-1940 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1975), p. 177
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Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1869–1940

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