How horrible, fantastic, incredible it is that we should be digging trenches and trying on gas masks here because of a quarrel in a far-away country between people of whom we know nothing. It seems still more impossible that a quarrel which has already been settled in principle should be the subject of war.
Neville Chamberlain (1869-1940) British politician, Prime Minster (1937-1940)
Radio broadcast, London (27 Sep 1938)
Quotations by:
Chamberlain, Neville
My good friends, this is the second time in our history that there has come back from Germany to Downing Street peace with honour. I believe it is peace for our time. We thank you from the bottom of our hearts. And now I recommend you to go home and sleep quietly in your beds.
Neville Chamberlain (1869-1940) British politician, Prime Minster (1937-1940)
Speech, Downing Street, London (30 Sep 1938)
The day following returning from the Munich Conference with Hitler, Mussolini and Daladier. The conference had agreed that Germany could annex Sudetenland while guaranteeing the remaining frontiers of Czechoslovakia.