Cliveden Set

As Cliveden set refers to a group of British politicians with Arthur Neville Chamberlain at the top, the decisive run the policy of appeasement towards the fascist states.

The term Cliveden set was dominated by the British journalist Claud Cockburn in the communist newspaper "The Week". The name is derived from Cliveden, a mansion west of London and country estate of the Astors, where the members met frequently at Taplow.

This group included alongside Neville Chamberlain, Lord Halifax, Samuel Hoare, John Simon, Kingsley Wood, Philip Kerr, Tom Jones, Ernest Brown, Lady Astor and Geoffrey Dawson, the editor of the Times, at.

Had close links to the Anglo - German Fellowship.