What was the policy of appeasement, and in what sense (if any) did it fail? The definition of appeasement changed over time. The word itself comes from the old French apaiser which means literally to make peace'. Of course it became a dirty word. The appeasers had invited German aggression, and hence the Second World War, through their weakness and ... badly governed, slave-holding country'. While the New Statesman described its government as a barbarous affair', Clement Attlee insisted there was little point in trying to defeat Fascism from without. As for Churchill he pointed out that Japan...

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