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NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN

Arthur Neville Chamberlain was an English politician and ardent social reformer. He was born in 1869 at Birmingham and died in 1940. He was lord Mayor of Birmingham from 1915 to 1916 and Conservative MP from 1918. He was Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1923 to 1924 and again from 1931 to 1937 during which times he was responsible for the destruction of slums rebuilt with modern houses with their own bathrooms, minister for health from 1924 to 1929 and prime Minister from 1937 to 1940, when he resigned following criticism of his appeasement - which had been demanded by the British people in a petition signed by 11 million adults urging peaceful negotiations rather than war - towards Hitler and the Axis forces during the run up to the Second World War.
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