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Cliveden set
1930s politically influential group of British people
The Cliveden set were an upper-class group of politically influential people active in the 1930s in the United Kingdom, prior to the Second World War.
They were in the circle of Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor, the first female Member of Parliament to take up her seat.
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The name comes from Cliveden, a stately home in Buckinghamshire that was Astor's country residence.
The "Cliveden Set" tag was coined by Claud Cockburn in his journalism for the communist newspaper The Week. His notion of an upper class pro-German conspiracy was widely accepted by opponents of Appeasement in the late 1930s.
It was long accepted that the aristocraticGermanophilesocial network supported friendly relations with Nazi Germany and helped create the 1930s policy of appeasement. John L. Spivak, writing in 1939, devoted a chapter to the Cliveden Set.[1]
After the end of World War II in Europe, the discovery of the Nazis'