According to some writer's interpretation, Churchill also
schemed to get into the position of Prime Minister:
...On news the Germans had reached
Narvik before British ships could leave harbor, Churchill was
unperturbed. He told cabinet colleagues, including Prime Minister
Chamberlain, that the German occupation, "should not be on terms
unfavorable to us," insisting that England was, "in a far better
position than we had been to date."
In reality it was Churchill who was in
the far better position. That was, in position to
replace Neville Chamberlain as Prime
Minister. Churchill's deliberate chaotic
bungling of the plans for a Norway invasion had led Chamberlain to
assume personal day-to-day responsibility for the Norwegian
operation. He had been asked to do so, in a calculated appeal, by
Churchill. From that point, the trap had
been set against Chamberlain as well.
The conduct of the British campaign
against Norway was ludicrous, and Churchill was directly
responsible for the disaster. He personally countered orders of the
military chiefs of staff, without even informing them. He sent
troops of the 24th Guards brigade by boat, without artillery,
engineers or transport, with orders to capture Narvik, after it had
been firmly secured by German forces...
...When it became obvious that he must
step down, Chamberlain sought to put the name of his Foreign
Minister, Lord Halifax, to the King as his successor, a move which
Halifax, the leading Round Table figure in the Cabinet, deftly
declined in favor of Churchill.
On May 10, just in the hours the
German Wehrmacht launched the blitzkrieg against Holland and
Belgium, Churchill was called by the King to form a new
government.
Winston Spencer Churchill, then 66,
had been promoted by the Round Table at that critical juncture, not
because he especially appreciated the need to mobilize Britain for
war against Germany, though this was a necessary precondition; nor
because he was pragmatic enough, contrary to Chamberlain, to be
willing to strike an alliance with Stalin to defeat Hitler, though
this was also a necessary precondition.
Churchill was chosen, above all,
because the chief aim of Round Table policy was the clash between Russia
and Germany. That, in order to draw the United States into the war
their geopolitics had brought about. Chamberlain's role in setting
Germany against Russia had exhausted its usefulness, once the
secret German-Soviet Friendship Treaty had been
signed.
A new ploy, other than playing up to
Hitler through appeasement, was now required to advance the game.
That ploy was called Winston Churchill.
For years Churchill had carefully
cultivated the attentions of Moscow, as Britain's most vocal
opponent of appeasing Germany, through, among others, London
ambassador Ivan Maisky. Maisky apparently never quite realized how
he and Moscow were merely being maneuvered by the sly Churchill, to
lead the Soviet Union into a bloodbath with Germany, in pursuit of
British geopolitical strategy. Chamberlain had merely
represented another way to accomplish the same bloody goal, a
German-Soviet war, by playing to the German side against the Soviet
Union...
http://www.engdahl.oilgeopolitics.net/History/MacKinder
...This idea of bringing Germany into
a collision with Russia was not to be found,
so far as the evidence shows, among any members of the inner circle
of the Milner Group. Rather it was to be found among the
personal associates of Neville Chamberlain,
including several members of the second circle of the Milner
Group...
In order to carry out this plan of
allowing Germany to drive eastward against Russia, it was necessary
to do three things:
(1) to liquidate all the countries
standing between Germany and Russia...
http://www.yamaguchy.netfirms.com/7897401/quigley/anglo_12b.html
...Accordingly, many of the appeasers,
when this point was reached in March 1938 went over to the
anti-Bolshevik or "three-bloc" point of view, while some even went
into the "peace at any price" group.
It is likely that Chamberlain, Sir
John Simon, and Sir Samuel Hoare went by this road from appeasement
to anti-Bolshevism. At any rate, few influential people were still
in the appeasement group by 1939 in the sense that they believed
that Germany could ever be satisfied. Once this was realized,
it seemed to many that the
only solution was to bring Germany into contact with, or even
collision with, the Soviet Union...
http://real-world-news.org/bk-quigley/12.html#42
Correspondent: What is the significance of the Treaty
of Non-Aggression Between the Soviet Union and Germany?
Mao Tse-tung: The Soviet-German non-aggression treaty
is the result of the growing socialist strength of the Soviet Union
and the policy of peace persistently followed by the Soviet
government.
The treaty has shattered the intrigues by which the reactionary
international bourgeoisie represented by
Chamberlain and Daladier sought to instigate a Soviet-German
war, has broken the encirclement of the Soviet
Union by the German-Italian-Japanese anti-Communist bloc,
strengthened peace between the Soviet Union and Germany, and
safeguarded the progress of socialist construction in the Soviet
Union.
In the East it deals a blow to Japan and helps China; it
strengthens the position of China's forces of resistance to Japan
and deals a blow to the capitulators. All this provides a basis for
helping the people throughout the world to win freedom and
liberation. Such is the full political significance of the
Soviet-German non-aggression treaty...
http://marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/
Heath: I think the Soviet Union has a lot of troubles. They are
facing domestic economic difficulties and agricultural predicament,
and there are also differences within the leadership, over
questions of tactics and timing, not over long-term strategy.
Mao: I think the Soviet Union is busy with its own affairs and
unable to deal with Europe, the Middle East, South Asia, China and
the Pacific. I think it will lose.
Heath: However, its military strength is continually augmented.
Although the Soviet Union has encountered troubles at many places
in the world, its strength is continuing to grow. Therefore, we
deem this to be the principal threat. Does the Chairman think the
Soviet Union constitutes a menace to China?
Mao: We are prepared for it to come, but it will collapse if it
comes. It has only a handful of troops, and you Europeans are so
frightened of it! Some people in the West are always trying to
direct this calamity toward China. Your senior, Chamberlain, and
also Daladier of France were the ones who pushed Germany
eastward.
Heath: I opposed
Mr. Chamberlain then.
http://english.pladaily.com.cn/special/mao/txt/w24.htm
Neville Chamberlain schemed and plotted to let Hitler attack
eastwards, wanted to set the Germans against the Russian, let the
two finish each other off.
It was the result of his policies that Hitler could go so far,
sadly the british is very stubborn; refuses to admit the truth and
is bent on distorting history.
According to their bullshit dirty filthy propaganda, Chamberlain
was only a moron, a fool to appease Hitler.
This is a nonsense.
For all that it is worth - it remains to be "some writer's
interpretation" - of past events that he was not even a
participant living through that historical period.
Anyone can interprete the events, and no one can stop anyone
from accepting the presented idea - "hook, sinker, and line".
It still does not bring any shine to Mao's damaged image when he
live pass his time of being relevant in China's history.
The same is being experienced in Singapore today, and the damage
to Singapore has cost Singaporean more then the sum of
US$100 Billion over 52 years - and all due
to the vanity of one single person who believe himself to
be more intelligent than the sum total of all Singaporeans.
