My sense of the British post-WWII attitude to Neville Chamberlain is almost entirely based on a Monty Python sketch, "Joke Warfare". Despite Hitler's early failures in joke warfare, the Nazis eventually develop a joke even funny than Britain's great pre-War joke. Cut to a shot of Chamberlain with the piece of paper - peace in our time.
It's in that context that I think Genesis of the Daleks is really quite amazing. There is a clear line being drawn between the Kaleds and the Nazis and the Doctor has the opportunity to blow up the lot and instead, Chamberlainesque, he allows himself to be convinced that Davros' eugenics program can be halted via democratic means. He is utterly and naively wrong, of course, but the program totally endorses his decision as the only viable one, in spite of being wrong.
That must have been quite something, if 30 years after WWII even Monty Python was bitter about a figure who wouldn't accept that war was the only way.
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