... can be seen in British Foreign policy during the 1920's with the Dawes and Young plans. These policies tried to conciliate the Germans, as did the Locarno Peace treaties of 1925 - but the significant omission was that Britain did not agree to guarantee Germany's Eastern frontiers (which even Stresemann, the "good German" said must be revised). When Chamberlain's half brother Austin, the then Foreign Minister, remarked in 1925 that "no British Government would risk the bones of a single British Grenadier in defence of the Polish Corridor" it seemed to Germany that Britain had turned it's back on Eastern Europe. So it is clear that even before Chamberlain became Prime Minister that Britain had followed a foreign policy of appeasement. In the earlier stages of appeasement there seemed much to commend it, and the appeasers, who included Macdonald, Baldwin, Sir John Simon (Foreign Secretary 1931-1935) Sir Samuel Hoare (Foreign Secretary June-December 1935) ...

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