The anti-appeasers: Conservative opposition to appeasement in the 30s

The historical convention that a small group of Conservative M.P.s professed a clear doctrine of resistance to aggression and resolutely opposed the National Government's foreign policy is questioned by the author of this book, who concludes that in fact there was no cohesive or constant body of critics but rather that Conservative dissent was sporadic and discontinuous. Even the most outspoken critics, such as Winston Churchill, Anthony Eden, and Leopold Amery, were less adamantly opposed to appeasement that it later appeared. In his analysis of this problem Dr. Thompson sheds new light on the nature of appeasement, the political situation which produced it, and the domestic debate which went on over it. Dr. Neville Thompson taught history at The University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario.