The elder von Kleist famously traveled to England in 1938, the year before World War II broke out, to try and determine whether other Western nations would support a coup attempt against Hitler, but failed to get the British government to change its policy of appeasement.

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British prime minister from 1937, he followed a policy of appeasement with Nazi Germany in the years before World War II, negotiating the Munich agreement with Adolph Hitler in 1938.

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That is, to contend with the growing radicalization of British Muslims, the government in London should end its policy of appeasement of radical Muslim groups, which is based on the bigoted assumption that Muslims cannot be expected to either abide by the laws or to integrate into wider society.

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