With the launch of a war of aggression in the Ukraine by Russian dictator Putin, it is time now to make a serious reassessment of the British prime minister, Neville Chamberlain.
Who would have thought that this much-maligned man, condemned correctly for his appeasement of Hitler at Munich, stands head and shoulders above the US and other Western leaders today?
Chamberlain’s calm unadorned message on 3 September 1939 is, for me at least, still chilling to hear: ‘I am speaking to you from the cabinet room at 10 Downing Street.
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