It is inevitable that Colin Powell's disastrous diplomacy will be compared to that of Neville Chamberlain in 1938.
In 1937, in Britain, Neville Chamberlain took over as prime minister at the head of a coalition government following Stanley Baldwin's retirement.
He was often gracious to political opponents whom he had bested, notably Neville Chamberlain whom he replaced as Prime Minister in 1940.
Neville Chamberlain first found infamy as the Conservative chancellor who slapped a tax on the divvy, despite the millions of signatures on a National Co-operative Petition.
Neville Chamberlain was equally perplexed on Sept. 1, 1939.
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Of the 20 prime ministers in the list, Neville Chamberlain and Sir Anthony Eden both scored zero - in Chamberlain's case because he "utterly failed in his principal objective of averting war".
"In initiating diplomatic contacts with the man he has likened to Hitler, President Bush has fallen prey to the very pressures and temptations that sent Neville Chamberlain to Munich in 1939, " said Frank J.
The poster boy for off-the-rails, disastrous optimism is Neville Chamberlain, the British prime minister who met with Hitler in 1938 and handed him a big chunk of Czechoslovakia in exchange for the Fuhrer's word.
Neville Chamberlain was equally perplexed on Sept.
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Speaking of the 1930's, there are particularly troubling parallels between the enthusiasm being expressed for Secretary of State Colin Powell's performance in this debacle and that with which British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain was greeted on his return to London from Munich in 1938.
Neville Chamberlain, who was neither, starved the army and navy on the theory that the revolution in military affairs of his time made the only defense feasible that of a "Fortress Britain" protected by the Royal Air Force -- and then failed in building up the air force.
In a debate on Europe in Westminster Hall, Conservative MP Edward Leigh warned against greater fiscal unity in the eurozone and compared agreements reached at EU summits to the return of former Neville Chamberlain to the UK declaring "peace in our time", the year before World War II began.
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