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'A Most Dishonest Argument'?: Chamberlain's Government, Anti-Appeasers and the Persistence of League of Nations' Language Before the Second World War

Lookup NU author(s): Dr Andrew Stedman

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Abstract

This article argues that both Neville Chamberlain's National Government and many anti-appeasers used and abused the language of the League of Nations in the years before the Second World War, long after they had abandoned Geneva itself as an effective instrument to maintain peace. It concludes that while many formerly pro-League figures could not bring themselves to admit the truth about the demise of collective securityand were, in effect, deluding themselvesthis was, in many cases, 'a most dishonest argument'; born out of party politics and the need to keep world opinion on side in the pursuit of alliances.

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Author(s): Stedman AD

Publication type: Article

Publication status: Published

Journal: Contemporary British History

Year: 2011

Volume: 25

Issue: 1

Pages: 83-99

Print publication date: 24/01/2011

ISSN (print): 1361-9462

ISSN (electronic): 1743-7997

Publisher: Routledge

URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13619462.2011.546105

DOI: 10.1080/13619462.2011.546105

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