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Neville Chamberlain: Definition and Much More from Answers.com (8794 words) |
 | 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. |
| Chamberlain was the eldest son of the second marriage of Joseph Chamberlain, Lord Mayor of Birmingham, and a half-brother to Austen, later Sir Austen. |
| Chamberlain and Baldwin had a strong political partnership throughout their fourteen years at the height of politics together, but Chamberlain was frustrated by Baldwin's sense of detachment and disinterest in the detail of policy, while Baldwin found Chamberlain's low opinion of the Labour Party disappointing. |
| Austen Chamberlain Summary (3316 words) |
| Chamberlain is recorded as having made his first political address there in 1884 at a meeting of the Political Society of his university, and it would appear that from an early stage his father had intended for politics to be his future path. |
| Chamberlain was resolutely opposed to the dissolution of the Union with Ireland, and to the strain of these years was added the death of his father in July 1914, only a few days after the assassination of the Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand began the train of events which led to the First World War. |
| Chamberlain therefore became the only leader of the Conservative Party in the twentieth century (in the lower house) not to attain the post of Prime Minister until the advent of William Hague’s leadership. |
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