Chris
>>No, had I been Chamberlain, I wouldn't have taken the word of a man who had invaded his neighbors, then promised not to do it again.<<
If you check I think you'll find that FDR also put his faith in non-aggression pacts and asked merely that Hitler promise not to attack a list of countries Roosevelt presented to him. Shame you weren't there at the time to straighten him out, as well as that silly Chamberlain, of course.
JR
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
