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)