London, Nov. 11, Mr. Neville Chamberlain, tall, lanky, British apostle of appeasement who worked for "peace in our time," did not have peace even in his dying hours.
Britain's war-time Prime Minister until Chancellor Hitlers smashing offensive tumbled him from power had no respite from the bombs which his appeasement policy failed to stem.
From his sick bed Mr. Chamberlain could hear the drone of German bombers attacking London. Several bombs fell near his camouflaged farm house home.
Mr. Chamberlain was in a comma many, hours before his death Saturday at 5.30 p.m. His wife and sister were at his bedside.
He had been in declining health since July 29 when he was successfully operated: on: for -an intestinal obstruction.
His health forced his retirement October 3 from the politics he loved so well.
Dwellers in the straggling cottages of Heckfield village near Mr. Chamberlain's farm house, did not know of his death until a radio broadcast yesterday at 1 p.m.
Even the local vicar was unaware that death. had claimed Mr. Chamber-
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