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Neville Chamberlain bears a large share of the responsibility for the deviation of British policy from that which would have created an effective balance to that which resulted in the near destruction of British forces in May 1940 and that nearly cost Britain the war.1
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Keith Neilson, “The Defence Requirements Sub-Committee, British Strategic Foreign Policy, Neville Chamberlain and the Path to Appeasement,” English Historical Review 118, no. 477 (June 2003): 681.
Michael Howard, The Continental Commitment(London: Temple Smith, 1972), 111.
Quoted in RAC Parker, Chamberlain and Appeasement: British Policy and the Coming of the Second World War (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1993), 93.
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Roth, A.I. (2010). Leader. In: Leadership in International Relations. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230113534_6
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