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Peace in Our Time
United Kingdom, Primary Documents ^ | 30 September, 1938 | Neville Chamberlain, Adolph Hitler

Posted on 03/04/2003 12:32:58 PM PST by richardtavor

Peace For Our Time by Neville Chamberlain

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The following is the wording of the printed statement that Neville Chamberlain waved as he stepped off the plane on 30 September, 1938 after the Munich Conference had ended the day before: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "We, the German Führer and Chancellor, and the British Prime Minister, have had a further meeting today and are agreed in recognizing that the question of Anglo-German relations is of the first importance for our two countries and for Europe. We regard the agreement signed last night and the Anglo-German Naval Agreement as symbolic of the desire of our two peoples never to go to war with one another again. We are resolved that the method of consultation shall be the method adopted to deal with any other questions that may concern our two countries, and we are determined to continue our efforts to remove possible sources of difference, and thus to contribute to assure the peace of Europe." -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chamberlain read the above statement in front of 10 Downing St. and said: "My good friends, for the second time in our history, a British Prime Minister has returned from Germany bringing peace with honour. I believe it is peace for our time... Go home and get a nice quiet sleep."


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: appeasement; hitler; iraqwar; nevillechamberlain
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1 posted on 03/04/2003 12:32:58 PM PST by richardtavor
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I'm sure this has been posted before, but I thought It would be a good bump when Grench "Germany and French" and the U.N. talk about "containment." When will these fools ever learn?
2 posted on 03/04/2003 12:34:32 PM PST by richardtavor (Pray for the peace of Jerusalem and the Christians and Jews of Iraq.)
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To: richardtavor
sounds more like 3 March, 2003
3 posted on 03/04/2003 12:35:45 PM PST by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I will defend to your death my right to say it.)
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To: richardtavor
bump
4 posted on 03/04/2003 12:36:19 PM PST by VOA
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5 posted on 03/04/2003 12:39:11 PM PST by SMEDLEYBUTLER
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To: richardtavor
Peace FOR our time. For not in
6 posted on 03/04/2003 12:40:06 PM PST by csmusaret
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To: richardtavor
"We, the German Führer and Chancellor, and the British Prime Minister, have had a further meeting today and are agreed in recognizing that the question of Anglo-German relations is of the first importance for our two countries and for Europe."

We? Is that the royal "we"?

7 posted on 03/04/2003 12:40:20 PM PST by RoughDobermann
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To: richardtavor
Dear France:

"Go home and get a nice quiet sleep"
8 posted on 03/04/2003 12:41:16 PM PST by Uncle Miltie (Peace is Good, Freedom is Better!)
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To: Puppage
Tanks were rolling shortly afterward.
9 posted on 03/04/2003 12:59:26 PM PST by richardtavor (Pray for the peace of Jerusalem and the Christians and Jews of Iraq.)
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To: richardtavor; Byron_the_Aussie; nunya bidness; The Great Satan; Alamo-Girl; okie01; Fred Mertz; ...

10 posted on 03/05/2003 10:29:47 PM PST by Wallaby
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To: richardtavor
"ARE THEY FOR US OR AGAINST US?" (Updated Daily.)

11 posted on 03/06/2003 1:34:30 AM PST by Cindy
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“How horrible…that we should be digging trenches … because of a quarrel in a far-away country between people of whom we know nothing…”

Chamberlain’s radio talk 27th Sept. 1939.





Give thanks to your God. Your children are safe. Peace is a victory for all mankind. If we must have a victor, let us choose Mr Chamberlain.

The Daily Express, 1938.

12 posted on 03/06/2003 3:37:39 AM PST by Ranger
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To: Wallaby
makes ya want to dig out the old tie dyes & bell bottoms?
13 posted on 03/06/2003 5:22:30 AM PST by thinden
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To: Wallaby
smiling faces of young people
Each day, 13-year-old Yuval Mendelevitch made sure to call his father, telling him what he had done at school and what time he would be home.

On Wednesday, the conversation was cut short when a suicide bomber blew himself up on a city bus in this northern city, killing Yuval and 14 other passengers, many of them teenagers.

"Suddenly, out of nowhere, he said, 'I love you Dad.' Then the line went dead," his father Yossi Mendelevitch told Israeli army radio Thursday. "It turns out that those were his last words."

While the "peace seekers" celebrate Jews and Americans blown to pieces!
Palestinian journalists in the West Bank and Gaza Strip reported expressions of joy in some places following the attack. Gunmen in refugee camps in the Gaza Strip, chanting "Allahu Akbar" (God is great), took to the streets and fired into the air in celebration. In Nablus, residents also celebrated.

Shortly before the Haifa bombing, Arafat delivered yet another fiery speech before the Muslim Summit in Doha, Qatar, ... The taped speech was delivered through a video link from Arafat's office in Ramallah. ...

Hamas leader Dr. Abdel Aziz Rantisi praised the attack but did not claim responsibility. ...

Muhammad al-Hindi of the Islamic Jihad said Israel's get-tough policy in the Gaza Strip was to blame for the attack, ... "Zionist incursions targeting Palestinian civilians are responsible for all this violence, and the blood will flow as long the violence and terror continue. Our people will fight."

"Fight" -- by murdering schoolchildren! By raising their children to HATE, to murder the young the old the weak. By flying planeloads of innocents into workday buildings full of normal innocent people -- moms, dads, sons, daughters, husbands and wifes -- that's their way of fighting. MURDER and HATE! JEALOUSY AND SPITE fuel their soul's engines.

And the PEACE SEEKERS love them!

Worse, the peace seekers trip up the good and bold who would stop this evil, Who must stop this evil.

14 posted on 03/06/2003 6:36:44 AM PST by bvw
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To: Wallaby
Thanks for the heads up!!!
15 posted on 03/06/2003 8:05:53 AM PST by Alamo-Girl
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To: richardtavor
Axis of Weasels bump
16 posted on 03/06/2003 8:12:05 AM PST by VOA
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To: bvw
I'm with you. I was prompted to post this picture on the thread by the irony of having a peace demonstrator unwittingly quote Neville Chamberlain.
17 posted on 03/06/2003 11:12:09 AM PST by Wallaby
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I thought that was a photoshopped picture -- I can hardly believe the irony if that protestor really made up that slogan himself.
18 posted on 03/06/2003 11:30:44 AM PST by bvw
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To: Wallaby
Deja Vu--all over again.
19 posted on 03/06/2003 1:00:30 PM PST by PsyOp
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To: bvw
Hard to believe, but apparently it is for real . Got it from LGF where they claim it is authentic, which is plausible, since the img tag points to the Yahoo! news photos from Reuters.
20 posted on 03/06/2003 2:31:53 PM PST by Wallaby
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