Gerhard Rohlfs: The Lonely Explorer

Schmokel, Wolfe W.

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“…Even Hitler let the issue rest, realizing that it might mean compromising on Austria and Czechoslovakia, although it continued to feature in his public speeches. 70 As prime minister from May 1937, Chamberlain nevertheless remained open to the possibility of a deal if the Germans were forthcoming, though he looked to other governments to make sacrifices. 71 As British representatives informed the Imperial Conference at London, on 2 June, transferring British mandates would create a crisis that might bring down the government, therefore the dominion governments should not rule out returning the mandates assigned to them.…”

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Diehard Conservatives and the Appeasement of Nazi Germany, 1935–1940

Fleming

2015

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Historians have tended to examine right-wing British responses to Adolf Hitler on the basis of a supposed admiration or political affinity for Nazism. This article argues that the dilemma which actually split diehard Conservatives was between challenging Germany before it was too late, and a conviction that Britain lacked the means to do so. Both positions were predicated on a belief that Britain needed to accelerate rearmament, and that Nazi Germany posed a direct threat to British power. Ideology is not irrelevant, but the public statements and actions of diehard MPs reveal that their primary motivation was to resist internal and external threats to Britain's position as a world power. This resulted in an unprecedented division in diehard ranks over Neville Chamberlain's foreign policy, though diehard unity on colonial appeasement recalled an older tradition of working together in defence of the empire.

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“…93 The issue thereafter disappeared from political debate in Britain. 94 It was also during this period that widespread political enthusiasm for appeasement, already under severe strain since Kristallnacht, withered away as most Conservative MPs looked instead to accelerated rearmament.…”

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