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For example, Lord Halifax told radio producers not to offend Hitler and Mussolini, and they complied by censoring anti-fascist commentary made by Labour and Popular Front MPs. The BBC also suppressed the fact that 15,000 people protested the prime minister in Trafalgar Square as he returned from Munich in 1938 (10,000 more than welcomed him at ...
The policy of appeasement underestimated Hitler's ambitions by believing that enough concessions would secure a lasting peace. [1] Today, the agreement is widely regarded as a failed act of appeasement towards Germany, [2] and a diplomatic triumph for Hitler.
The signal that the civilized world expects to see from the United States is peace through strength
Today, when some powerful people are rushing to get into the good graces of Donald Trump before he even reenters the White House, they are engaging in a form of preemptive appeasement, another ...
Biden’s appeasement approach mirrors Barack Obama’s failed strategy. It didn’t work then, it won’t work now. | Opinion
Deterrence, Coercion, and Appeasement: British Grand Strategy, 1919-1940 (Oxford University Press, 2022) online. Gilbert, Martin. The Roots of Appeasement. New American Library, 1966. online; Goddard, Stacie E. "The rhetoric of appeasement: Hitler's legitimation and British foreign policy, 1938–39". Security Studies 24.1 (2015): 95-130.
Bread and circuses" (or "bread and games"; from Latin: panem et circenses) is a metonymic phrase referring to superficial appeasement. It is attributed to Juvenal (Satires, Satire X), a Roman poet active in the late first and early second century AD, and is used commonly in cultural, particularly political, contexts.
In broader terms, support for Simon's motion would signal approval of the government's policy of appeasement in its dealings with Hitler. [citation needed] After Simon's opening address, the Labour Party's deputy leader, Arthur Greenwood, replied for the Opposition. He pointed out that "the eleventh-hour concessions made at Munich went far ...