Despite Hitler 's relative quietness as the " Reich " absorbed the Sudetenland , foreign policy concerns continued to preoccupy Chamberlain . He made trips to Paris and Rome , hoping to persuade the French to hasten their rearmament and Mussolini to be a positive influence on Hitler . Several of his Cabinet members , led by Foreign Secretary Lord Halifax , began to draw away from the appeasement policy . Halifax was by now convinced that Munich , though " better than a European war , " had been " a horrid business and humiliating " . Public revulsion over the pogrom of '' Kristallnacht '' on 9 November 1938 made any attempt at a " rapprochement " with Hitler unacceptable , though Chamberlain did not abandon his hopes
Kristallnacht
Kristallnacht
Neville Chamberlain