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Appeasement, in an international context, is a diplomatic negotiation policy of making political, material, or territorial concessions to an aggressive power with intention to avoid conflict. The term
Adolf Hitler greets British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain at the beginning of the Bad Godesberg meeting on 24 September 1938 in which Hitler demanded annexation of Czech border areas without delay, leading to the Godesberg Memorandum.
Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia, c. 1942
British Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin
Seyss-Inquart and Hitler in Vienna, March 1938
Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax, known as the 1st Baron Irwin from 1925 until 1934 and the 3rd Viscount Halifax from 1934 until 1944, was a British Conservative politician of the 19
Appeasement
…Hitler than Blum" in reference to the French Socialist Prime Minister Léon Blum at the time. Anti-communism was a motive of a close ally of Chamberlain, Lord Halifax, who said after he had visited Göring and met Hitler in Germany in 1936 and 1937: "Nationalism and Racialism is a powerful force but I can't feel that…
Halifax in 1944
Statue of Lord Irwin at Coronation Park, Delhi
Lord Halifax with Hermann Göring at Schorfheide, Germany, 20 November 1937
Halifax and Winston Churchill in 1938. Note Halifax's artificial left hand, concealed under a black glove.