On the 10th of December 1936, at Fort Belvedere, in the grounds of Great Windsor Park, King Edward VIII signed formal abdication notices, signalling his decision to step down from ...
Following his blunder over India, Churchill’s judgement was again called into question in late 1936 and early 1937. The new king, Edward VIII, wanted to marry the American divorcée Mrs Wallis Simpson, a situation that prompted a constitutional crisis (kings weren’t allowed to marry divorced ‘commoners’; if the king went ahead, he’d have to ‘abdicate’, or step down as king).
Not satisfied with only Austria, Hitler began demanding parts of Czechoslovakia, too. In September 1938, with war against Germany seeming increasingly likely, Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain flew to Munich (according to a British Pathe newsreel, his first trip in an aeroplane), to meet the German leader. His aim of this ‘mission of peace’ was to secure a guarantee that there’d be no further German aggression.
In 1922, Churchill found himself out of Parliament for the first time in twenty-two years, after losing his seat in the General Election. He retired to the South of France to take up writing but couldn't stay away from politics for long.
Churchill writes to Unity Mitford on 12 March 1938, of Herr Hitler’s fear of ‘the free expression of opinion’ and the resulting ‘dastardly outrage’. copyright: Churchill ...
Nazi troops entering Vienna, Austria, to ‘cheers’ from crowds, 15 March 1938. copyright: Bundesarchiv, Bild 146-1985-083-10 / CC-BY-SA [CC-BY-SA-3.0-de (http://creativecommons....
