'Peace in Our Time'

"A deal was reached on 29 September, and at about 1:30 am on 30 September 1938, Adolf Hitler, Neville Chamberlain, Benito Mussolini and Édouard Daladier signed the Munich Agreement." -- Wikipedia post on Google

"There Chamberlain and Daladier met with HItler, Mussolini, and their two Foreign Ministers, von Ribbentrop and Count Ciano, Mussolini's son-in-law. While the Czech ministers, unconsulted, waited nervouslyin an anteroom, the Western Powers signed away everything Hitler wanted...
"The initial reception to the agreement was interesting. Chamberlain had been told by his military chiefs that he had to buy time; Britain simply could not fight. He came home convinced that he had won a great diplomatic victory; he stepped off the airplane, waving his umbrella and his little slip of paper, and assured cheering crowds that he had achieved 'peace in our time.'"
A Short History of World War II by James L. Stokesbury (1980)
Just sayin. What is it they say about what happens when we don't learn the lessons of history?

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