Crossword clues for appeasement
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Appeasement \Ap*pease"ment\, n.
The act of appeasing, or the state of being appeased;
pacification.
--Hayward.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-15c., "pacification," from Middle French apeisement, Old French apaisement "appeasement, calming," noun of action from apaisier (see appease). First recorded 1919 in international political sense; not pejorative until failure of Chamberlain's policy toward Germany in 1939 (Methods of appeasement was Chamberlain's description of his policy).
Wiktionary
n. The state of being appeased; the policy of giving in to demands in order to preserve the peace.
WordNet
n. the act of appeasing (as by acceding to the demonds of) [syn: calming]
Wikipedia
Appeasement in a political context is a diplomatic policy of making political or material concessions to an enemy power in order to avoid conflict.
The term is most often applied to the foreign policy of the British Prime Ministers Ramsay Macdonald, Stanley Baldwin and Neville Chamberlain towards Nazi Germany between 1935 and 1939, although Pierre Laval, the French foreign minister, also sought to avoid war "by arrangements with the Dictators of Italy and Germany.". Their policies have been the subject of intense debate for more than seventy years among academics, politicians and diplomats. The historians' assessments have ranged from condemnation for allowing Adolf Hitler's Germany to grow too strong, to the judgment that they had no alternative and acted in their country's best interests. At the time, these concessions were widely seen as positive, and the Munich Pact concluded on 30 September 1938 among Germany, Britain, France, and Italy prompted Chamberlain to announce that he had secured " peace for our time."
Usage examples of "appeasement".
English journalism, would play, like the Chamberlain government, a dubious role in the disastrous British appeasement of Hitler.
On February 20, a week after Schuschnigg had capitulated at Berchtesgaden, Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden had resigned, principally because of his opposition to further appeasement of Mussolini by Prime Minister Chamberlain.
Sir Nevile Henderson, the British ambassador, who had been sent to Berlin by Prime Minister Chamberlain to apply his skills as a professional diplomat to the appeasement of Hitler and who applied them to the utmost, called repeatedly at the German Foreign Office to inquire about German troop movements and to advise caution.
Nevertheless Sir Robert Vansittart, chief diplomatic adviser to the Foreign Secretary and one of the leading opponents in London of the appeasement of Hitler, saw Kleist on the afternoon of his arrival, and Winston Churchill, still in the political wilderness in Britain, received him the next day.
Kleist repeated what he had been instructed to tell, stressing that Hitler had set a date for aggression against the Czechs and that the generals, most of whom opposed him, would act, but that further British appeasement of Hitler would cut the ground from under their feet.
This was an easy way out for the French, and led by Bonnet, who, as the course of events would show, was determined to outdo Chamberlain in the appeasement of Hitler, they seized upon it.
So easily were the British and French statesmen and diplomats, bent on appeasement at any cost, deceived!
More serious, many of his own backers in Parliament and half of the cabinet had revolted against any further appeasement of Hitler.
The period of embarrassment, hesitation, inclination to temporization or even to appeasement has been succeeded among the Nazi leaders by a new phase.
Christian crusade against Spain and the Catholics, and if instead she surrendered herself, her government and her country to the cautious and riskless policies of the Cecils - this is the argument over appeasement - then surely, according to Tacitus, it was the duty of someone in the position of the Earl of Essex to rebel, fnot to establish his owne souveraignety .
They literally had to go to Europe to get extraterritorial votes for appeasement.
Everything that gives them hope and self-respect and preserves their homes from the worst indignities of panic, appeasement, treason-hunting and the rest of it, is to be encouraged, and meanwhile their sons will have time to think and it may be possible so to search, ransack and rationalise the Streit project as to make a genuine and workable scheme for the socialisation of the world.
THE APPEASEMENT OF DEMETER I Demeter devastated our good land, In blackness for her daughter snatched below.
Those costs seemed so high that they concluded that there had to be another way and so opted for appeasement.
It's possible to complicate Pemulis's Mean-Value equation for distribution by factoring in stuff like historical incidences of bellicosity and appeasement, unique characteristics of perceived national interests, etc.