Frank E Gibbard Posted August 27, 2014 Posted August 27, 2014 "Peace for our time" said Neville Chamberlainon return from his meeting with "Herr Hitler."A piece of paper fluttered in the air of Heston."Peace" meant nothing like he had saughtof course as war history so horribly tells;false assurance is what your confidencetrickster always smoothly and slyly sells.The poor PM had bearded, he thought,that dragon in his den, but its dimmedflame, neatly trimmed,simply lured him in;would blacken Nev’s name and ruin oncefine career and reputation. Confidence wasmisplaced in this appeasement, it is our timefor good old Winston, called a grateful nation. Quote
David W. Parsley Posted August 29, 2014 Posted August 29, 2014 A thoughtul and timely piece. No parallels being prepared for a guy named Putin, I presume, Frank? - Dave Quote
Benjamin Posted August 30, 2014 Posted August 30, 2014 An apt reminder Frank.... Sadly it seems we've learnt nothing. The world sinks into anarchy once more as "confidence tricksters" safely profit from the mayhem. G. Quote
JoelJosol Posted August 31, 2014 Posted August 31, 2014 I agree. Just change the names and the piece remains current. "A piece of paper fluttered in the air" - love the sound of that. Quote "Words are not things, and yet they are not non-things either." - Ann Lauterbach
dedalus Posted September 1, 2014 Posted September 1, 2014 Interestingly, reluctance to confront (now known as "appeasement") began with Stanley Baldwin in the mid-1930s and was enthusiastically supported by the Peace League, the churches, and British society in general. Memories of the mass casualties in the Great War helped make this so. Chamberlain simply inherited this policy. Churchill was dramatically opposed to this approach but he was at the time overwhelmingly discredited as a yesterday man who was woefully out-of-touch with the trend of modern politics, as for example with his reactionary opposition to any relaxation of imperial rule in India and his emotional defence of King Edward VIII to marry the American divorceé Wallis Simpson. It was a political wonder that he ever got back into office, particularly as Prime Minister! We can thank the heavy-handed stupidity of the Nazis for that. Quote Drown your sorrows in drink, by all means, but the real sorrows can swim
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