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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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appeasement
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Term used in particular of the appeasing of Adolf Hitler's expansionist claims in the late 1930s, a policy closely identified with Neville *Chamberlain and most in evidence at *Munich. Popular with a majority of the British public at the time, and as widely vilified by a majority in the decades after World War II, the best defence of the policy has been that it delayed the war by a year and gave Britain time to rearm.
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