Sentences with phrase «appeasement efforts»

I'd like to add to your reasonable comments that this notion that we can nanny fix the problem through appeasing the unappeasable is akin to that old comparison to Neville Chamberlin's appeasement efforts before WW2.

Not exact matches

When the government awoke to the situation, there were the usual efforts at «appeasement», hasty feeling about for possible alliances, and then a belated and desperate resistance, which was finally broken.

But if it was unjust to link peace work and appeasement in the «40s, the suspicion was more understandable in the «60s, when some American antiwar activists made no effort to conceal their sympathies for an authoritarian regime in North Vietnam.

As the threat from Nazi Germany increased, in the late 1930s the Labour Party gradually abandoned its pacifist stance and came to support re-armament, largely due to the efforts of Ernest Bevin and Hugh Dalton who by 1937 had also persuaded the party to oppose Neville Chamberlain's policy of appeasement.

Despite the best efforts of some senior civil servants in the Home Office - who believe appeasement is an adequate solution - this Coalition government has made real concrete moves to try and get people off the conveyer belt.

The Academy Awards began as an effort of appeasement.

All three parties have indicated they intend to continue their efforts despite attempts at appeasement.

If the parents are not giving 100 % to this effort, or are only doing this as a way to make appeasement then it will never work.