Chamberlain's appeasement of Hitler's evil - despite frequent attempts by many writers on the fringe far right to defend it - is a truly dead horse and my book won't spend much time kicking it.
But WWII would never have even started if others hadn't remained stoically neutral bystanders to bullyboy Hitler's evil for the twelve long years of his reign of terror.
I am completely sympathetic to the dilemma of Sweden and Switzerland after April - June 1940 , but there had been seven long years before that when their working to end Hitler's evil would have been both a boon to civilization and completely safe.
Even after June 1940, Ireland, Portugal, Turkey and possibly Spain had no excuse not to have been brave and on the side of the angels .
Their moral record in WWII still deserves a good boot-kicking ...
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