British Premier Neville Chamberlain, who left Munich by air after his peace saving effort in conjunction with the French, German and Italian heads of state, saw Hitler, Sept. 30, 1938 and the two signed what amounted to a symbolic “no war” pact. When he landed at Heston Aerodrome in London this evening he waved the document aloft and read it to the cheering crowd gathered. (AP Photo)
In 1938, addressing the public after co-signing the Munich Agreement, which allowed Nazi annexation of Czechoslovakia’s Sudetenland, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain proclaimed, “I believe it is peace for our time.”
Eleven months later Germany invaded of Poland on 1 September 1939. Britain and France declared war on Germany two days later. Thus started WW2.
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