Everything that I have worked for, everything that I have hoped for, everything that I have believed in during my public life has crashed into ruins.

You have sat here too long for any good you are doing. Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go! 

If there are crueler words that man has spoken to man I do not wish to hear them. Those are the words of Leo Amery, May 7, 1940, addressed to the man-Amery's friend-who spoke the words at top on September 2, 1939, Neville Chamberlain. Six months later Chamberlain was dead.