Winston Churchill gave a generous and gracious eulogy for Neville Chamberlain in House of Commons on November 12, 1940, two days after Chamberlain died, praising his character despite past political differences over appeasement. Chamberlain died November 9, 1940, six months after resigning as Prime Minister. Churchill, who had replaced him and had been critic of appeasement, said in eulogy, It fell to Neville Chamberlain in one of the supreme crises of the world to be contradicted by events, to be disappointed in his hopes, and to be deceived and cheated by a wicked man. But what were these hopes in which he was disappointed? What were these wishes in which he was frustrated? What was that faith that was abused? They were surely among the most noble and benevolent instincts of the human heart, the love of peace, the toil for peace, the strife for peace, the pursuit of peace, even at great peril, and certainly to the utter disdain of popularity or clamor. Churchill continued, Herr Hitler protests with frantic words and gestures that he has only desired peace. What do these ravings and outpourings count before the silence of Neville Chamberlain's tomb? So Churchill praised Chamberlain's noble desire for peace, saying history would judge his motives kindly, showing magnanimity.
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