Neville Chamberlain
1869–1940 · Person
Reforming health minister and chancellor whose premiership is remembered for one word: appeasement. Flew three times to meet Hitler, proclaimed 'peace for our time' at Munich, took Britain to war a year later, and died months after resigning.
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