ABSTRACT
Herbert Samuel, leader of the liberal party, 1931: if indeed the truest patriot is a man who breathes hatred, who lays the seeds of war and stirs up the greatest number of enemies against the country, then Mr Churchill is a great patriot. In January 1933, Adolf Hitler became chancellor of Germany. Churchill became associated with another group of rebels in the house of commons – those who warned of ‘the German menace’. They consisted mainly of a different group to those in the India lobby, and included Austen Chamberlain, Edward Grigg, Lord Winterton, and Brendan Bracken. The Munich agreement turned out to be scarcely distinguishable from the Godesberg ultimatum, and, as executed, to involve still further concessions to Germany. As Mr Churchill well put it: ‘the German dictator, instead of snatching his victuals from the table, has been content to have them served to him course by course’.
