Sir Alexander Cadogan and Lord Halifax's 'Damascus road' conversion over the Godesberg terms 1938 |
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Authors: | Peter Neville |
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Affiliation: | a University of Wolverhampton, |
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Abstract: | The article challenges the recent perception that Lord Halifax was the hero of the Czech crisis in 1938, when in fact the real credit for his revolt against the Godesberg terms belonged to Sir Alexander Cadogan, the Permanent Under-Secretary at the Foreign Office. It does on to argue that Halifax was ill suited by nature to be Foreign Secretary and that his subsequent record shows him to have been a natural appeaser, still loyal to Chamberlain, who argued for an accommodation with Hitler in the summer of 1940. |
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