Biography of N Chamberlain

Arthur Neville Chamberlain English. He is the son of Joseph Chamberlain from his second marriage, Austin Chamberlain's half -brother Ostin. Father prepared him for a businessman's career. Therefore, after graduating from a privileged private school in Rugby and Birmingham College, Neville has been engaged in entrepreneurship for a long time - since the year he controlled his father plantations in Bagams, and then his metallurgical plants in Birmingham.

Chamberlain came to politics in the year when he took up the post of Lord mayor of the city of Birmingham, in years he was the general director of the Minister of Service of National Self-Provincial. A year later, he was first elected to the country's parliament from the Conservative Party, and since the year he was repeatedly included in the government where he held various posts: he was the Minister of Communications, Health, Finance, and carried out various reforms.

For example, being the Minister of Health, Chamberlain has achieved a change in 3Acon about the poor and contributed to the development of municipal construction; As the Minister of Finance, by reducing interest rates and preferential lending, contributed to the prosperity of the UK economy. And although his achievements in the ministerial period cannot be called brilliant, he was a good leader and business executive.

In the year, Neville Chamberlain became the prime minister of the country. Obviously, during this period, the main task of the foreign policy of Great Britain was to prevent a military threat from the fascist states, and above all, Germany. However, Chamberlain, who had neither sufficient knowledge, or an understanding of the whole complexity of the political situation and the international situation of that time, pursued a very short -sighted policy, relying on conservative principles.

In particular, the policy of non-interference in the Civil War in Spain contributed to the success of Italo-German intervention in this country. Roosevelt on the convocation of the conference of the great powers. Pursuing the “policy of peace” by Germany, he believed that with the help of diplomatic concessions, one could delay the beginning of the war. Therefore, together with A.

Hitler, B. Mussolini and E. Daladier signed the infamous Munich agreement, which opened the way to the dismemberment of Czechoslovakia, which Chamberlain called "a distant country that we do not know." In addition, he considered a similar act as inevitable in connection with the uneasiness of Great Britain to war. Returning to London, the Prime Minister directly at the airfield showed a signed agreement with the words: "I brought you peace." But the very next year it became clear that the policy of peace did not bring results - the Second World War began.

Also, Chamberlain’s government is responsible for the breakdown of the Soviet-French-French negotiations of the year, aimed at restraining fascist aggression, and at the same time it led secret negotiations with fascist Germany London negotiations of the year. All this led to the fact that the UK entered the war in extremely difficult conditions, and Chamberlain’s policy suffered a complete failure.

Obviously, due to such foreign policy, the situation of the prime minister himself was extremely unstable, and then even more complicated after the failure of the military British expedition in Norway April. In this regard, Chamberlain was forced to resign. He left his post of Prime Minister on May 10, being seriously ill with him, he was diagnosed with cancer, losing him to Winston Churchill, a supporter of the uncompromising struggle with Hitler.

But, despite the deterioration of the state of health, Chamberlain, until his death, remained a member of the Coalition Government of Churchill, the leader of the conservative party, as well as the Lord President of the Council. Persons of the day March 17:-Iren Zholio-Kuri French physicist, Nobel laureate.