"We make a great mistake when our Press persists in abusing him. Let it abuse his evil advisers but give him a chance of being a good boy. If our object is to achieve results that is the only line to take. If our only satisfaction is to slang him, then we must abandon hope of ever getting results."
Extract from a letter from Nevile Henderson, British Ambassador in Germany, September 6th, 1938. You know whom he was talking about.
https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/resources/chamberlain-and-hitler/