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appeasementHistorically, the conciliatory policy adopted by the British government, in particular under Neville Chamberlain, towards the Nazi and fascist dictators in Europe in the 1930s in an effort to maintain peace (see United Kingdom: history 1914–45, policy of appeasement). It was strongly opposed by Winston Churchill, but the Munich Agreement of 1938 was almost universally hailed as its justification. Appeasement ended when Germany occupied Bohemia–Moravia in March 1939.
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That appeasement policy is the main reason Los Angeles has the worst public transit system of any big city in America - and probably in the world, for that matter. In the 1930s, Stanley Baldwin and Neville Chamberlain merely pursued to its logical conclusion the appeasement policy adopted the decade before. WHILE the Clinton administration was busy last week fine tuning its appeasement policy toward the Chinese dictatorship, Mickey Mouse was pursuing the exact opposite approach, one which the Clinton foreign policy folks might do well to learn from. |
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