APPEASEMENT

Related Subjects: Isolation, Neutrality

1. I do not believe that we can make progress in European appeasement . . . if we allow the impression to gain currency abroad that we yield to constant pressure.—ANTHONY EDEN, Upon resigning from Chamberlain Government, Feb. 21, 1938

2. My good friends, this is the second time in our history that there has come back from Germany to Downing Street peace with honor. . . . I believe it is peace for our time... . I recommend you to go home and sleep quietly in your beds.—NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN, Alighting from the plane on his return from Munich, Sept. 25, 1938

3. Does not the little man know that history will judge him as harshly as the pottiest appeaser? How often can one individual be betrayed with­out losing a little virtue on his own account? Democracy ought to have a better plot than "Nellie, the Beautiful Cloak Model." It is not enough to say: "That man betrayed me." Why did you let him? Are you a dynamic force or a flower girl?—SAMUEL GRAFTON, I'd Rather Be Right

4. It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favour of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.—DEAN INGE