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Jack Crawford, WWII Veteran
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Neville Chamberlain, the obvious successor to Baldwin as Conservative leader since 1930, then served as Prime Minister until Winston Churchill succeeded him in 1940 as Prime Minister in an all-party war coalition.
A lifelong pacifist, (Britten composed a pacifist march as early as 1937) the appeasement of Hitler by Stanley Baldwin and Neville Chamberlain drove him to follow W.
Through the takeover of Austria, the Munich crisis and eventually the invasion of Poland, England's prime minister, Neville Chamberlain attempted to negotiate with the obsessed and erratic Adolf Hitler.
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