Biography of horace wilson

Wilson was born and educated in Bournemouth. He joined the British Civil Service in , as a boy clerk, and attended the London School of Economics as a night student.

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At the Board of Trade he became particularly involved in industrial relations, and moved to the Ministry of Labour in Wilson was charged with communicating to Hitler that the British Cabinet, France, and Czechoslovakia rejected Hitler"s demands to annex the largely ethnic-German Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia. In the course of speaking with Hitler, it was Wilson who also delivered the most significant diplomatic communication between Germany and Britain since the close of World War I: that should Germany invade Czechoslovakia and France declare war against Germany, Britain would go to war against Germany alongside France.

However, Britain did not stick to this resolute stance, and instead accepted the break-up of Czechoslovakia under the Munich Agreement, damaging the historical reputation of both Chamberlain and Wilson. Speaking to another journalist, Colin Cross, in - that is, 23 years after the liberation of Auschwitz - Wilson, by then well into his eighties, is quoted as saying that he understood Hitler"s feelings about the Jews.

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Wilson is a key character in Michael Dobbs" novel Winston"s War. In the book Wilson is portrayed as an arch-manipulator who has the telephones of all potential enemies to Neville Chamberlain tapped and will use any methods he can to get rid of Winston Churchill. In the sequel, Wilson"s increasingly authoritarian actions prompt the British military to launch a coup d"etat and overthrow him.

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