Fighting Churchill, appeasing Hitler: Neville Chamberlain, Sir Horace Wilson, & Britain's plight of appeasement: 1937-1939

Abstract

A man I can do business with -- Personal discourtesy is his chief weapon -- Winston's power for mischief -- My master is lonely just now -- Taking personal charge -- Woolly rubbish -- Getting on terms with the Germans -- A new chapter in the history of African colonial development -- All that is well sewn up -- The central weakness -- Every effort to bring about appeasement -- A nice fraudulent balance sheet -- A wise British subject -- The best the English can do -- Their just demands had been fairly met -- Clearly marked out for the post -- The appalling sums it is proposed to spend -- Well anchored -- Abandonment and ruin -- Riding the tiger -- The right line about things -- Advice from the devil -- The mountebank -- Combating Hoare's heresies -- The end of the rainbow -- Pay whatever price may be necessary -- Catching the mugwumps -- Talking appeasement again -- More ways of killing a cat -- Mr Boothby expects a rake-off -- Too many people at the job -- Entitled to demand concessions -- Pathetic little worms -- A potato war -- A civil servant with a political sense -- Minister to Iceland -- A guilty man in the realm of King Zog -- He has returned to Bournemouth.