Re: Let's talk to Hitler

In our last episode, 
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the lovely and talented slidge@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 
broadcast on alt.fan.cecil-adams:

>>>Neville Chamberlain?
>> 
>> No.  Neville Chamberlain *did* talk to Hitler.  It didn't help.
>> 

> It wasn't the talk that didn't help, it was the agreement to cede the
> Sudetenland to Germany in return for Germany ceasing to engage in funny
> business.

I think you could make a case, given that the Battle of Britain was a near
thing, the deal might have been not such a bad thing if Umbrella Guy had
gone right back to London and started immediately ramping the country up
to
war footing, but that the "Peace in our time" thing was the mistake,
especially as Umbrella Guy seemed to really believe it.

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