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Arthur Neville Chamberlain (/ ˈ tʃ eɪ m b ər l ɪ n /; 18 March 1869 – 9 November 1940) was a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from May 1937 to May 1940 and Leader of the Conservative Party from May 1937 to October 1940.
The National Government of 1937–1939 was formed by Neville Chamberlain on his appointment as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom by King George VI.He succeeded Stanley Baldwin, who announced his resignation following the coronation of the King and Queen in May 1937.
Chamberlain's acceptance of unemployment as an inevitable part of the business cycle was seen as outdated. [134] In 1958, as prime minister, Macmillan described a report advocating limits on public investment as "a very bad paper. Indeed a disgraceful paper. It might have been written by Mr. Neville Chamberlain's Government." [133]
Neville Chamberlain: 1935–1937 Minister without Portfolio: Anthony Eden: 1935 Minister without Portfolio: Lord Eustace Percy: 1935–1936 First Lord of the Admiralty: Bolton Eyres-Monsell (from November 1935 as The Viscount Monsell) 1935–1936 Sir Samuel Hoare: 1936–1937 President of the Board of Trade: Walter Runciman: 1935–1937 ...
By 1937, Labour had jettisoned its pacifist position and came to support rearmament and oppose Neville Chamberlain's policy of appeasement. [53] However Attlee and the Labour Party strongly opposed conscription when it was passed in April 1939. [54]
The resulting parliamentary term would see two changes of Prime Minister: Neville Chamberlain took over from Baldwin in 1937, and subsequently formed a new cross-party wartime coalition—which included the Labour and Liberal parties—in 1939 at the outbreak of the Second World War.
President Trump's approach to ending the war in Ukraine echoes the appeasement of Hitler's aggression in 1938, and his proposed solution of a neutral Ukraine accepting Russian dominion over its ...
Neville Chamberlain formed the Chamberlain war ministry in 1939 after declaring war on Germany. Chamberlain led the country for the first eight months of the Second World War , until the Norway Debate in Parliament led Chamberlain to resign and Winston Churchill to form a new ministry .