Mark Knows It All

At the end of September, 1938, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, got off his airplane from Munich waiving a piece of paper in his hand and said the following: “My good friends, for the second time in our history, a British Prime Minister has returned from Germany bringing peace with honor. I believe it is peace for our time…” Hitler had threatened to march into all of Czechoslovakia unless Britain and France agreed to allow Germany to annex the Sudentenland, an area of Czechoslovakia which had large numbers of ethnic Germans, but strategically important to the Czechs. Two agreements were signed by the Germans, Italians, French and the British. (Note that Czechoslovakia wasn't invited to the party). The first caved to the German demands. The second agreement stated that war would not be used to resolve any future disagreements between Britain, the United States, and Germany, only “peaceful” means. As Chamberlain was waiving this agreement at the press, Hitler was back in B...