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Originally Posted by glyn
He was a man of honour. A gentleman, and yet he is held up as if he had acted treasonably. Tell me, with the pitiful hand of cards he was dealt at the time, and knowing what he knew, what would you have done differently?
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I don't question his honour. I think he was incredibly naive to look at - or ignore - Hitler's past actions and figure "well
this ought to satisfy him".
Where would Tina Turner be right now if she'd rolled over and said "Hit me again Ike! And put some STANK on it!
Rolling on a river, that's where she'd be.
You can only roll over so many times.
I came to the conclusion at a very early age that regardless of the consequences, I would only bend just so far.
I realize that Chamberlain had millions of lives at stake not just his own, but surely he saw what kind of men that the leaders of National Socialism were?