1. He was as much of an appeaser as Chamberlain, but less dogmatic and self-righteous.

2. Mr de Klerk is criticised as an appeaser, not praised as a statesman.

3. An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile -- hoping it will eat him last.

4. Still, we promise we'll make an appearance. The appearance is an appeaser.

5. Martland said: "Mussolini ended his life hung upside down in Milan, but history has not been kind to Hoare either, condemned as an appeaser of fascism alongside Neville Chamberlain.