Analyse the influence of Neville Chamberlain on International Relations

Neville Chamberlain was born in 1869 and was the son of the politician Joseph Chamberlain. In 1915 Neville was elected Lord Mayor of Birmingham and by 1918 he had been elected as Conservative MP for Ladywood. His promotion was rapid, and in 1923 the then Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin appointed him as Postmaster-General (1923-1924) the Minister for Health (1924-1929). During his period as Minister for Health Chamberlain was responsible for the reform of the Poor Law, the promotion of …

… the Reich; he did so. He gave his word after Munich that he had no further territorial demands in Europe; he broke it. He has sworn for years that he was the mortal enemy of Bolshevism; he is now its ally. Can you wonder his word is, for us, not worth the paper it is written on ?" These words, almost every last one, create a simply magnificent piece of irony. Magnificent, painful, upsetting, ironic.