Water Under the Bridges

London: Hodder & Stoughton Limited, 1945. First edition [stated[. Presumed first printing. Hardcover. Good in fair dust jacket. DJ is worn, torn, soiled and chipped. Ink notation at spine on page 9.. 221, [3] p. These are the author's, formerly the British Ambassador in Berlin, "Diplomatic Reminiscences". Sir Nevile Meyrick Henderson KCMG (10 June 1882 30 December 1942) was a British diplomat and Ambassador of the United Kingdom to Nazi Germany from 1937 to 1939. He joined the Diplomatic Service in 1905. He served as an envoy to France in 1928/29 and as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Kingdom of Yugoslavia between 1929 and 1935, In 1935 he became Ambassador to Argentina before on 28 May 1937 he was appointed Ambassador in Berlin. A believer in appeasement policies, Henderson thought Hitler could be controlled and pushed toward peace and cooperation with the Western powers. Henderson was ambassador at the time of the 1938 Munich Agreement, and counselled Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain to enter into it. Shortly thereafter, he returned to London for medical treatment, returning to Berlin in ill-health in February 1939 (he would die of cancer less than four years later). After returning to London, Henderson asked for another ambassadorship, but was denied. He wrote Failure of a Mission: Berlin 1937 1939, which was published in 1940.