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15.02.03, 17:44
PEACE IN OUR TIME
The Manchester Guardian (1st October, 1938)
[...] Another welcome awaited the Premier [N.
Chamberlain] in Downing Street, which he reached
fifteen minutes later. With difficulty his car moved
forward from Whitehall to No. 10. Mounted policemen
rode fore and aft and a constable kept guard on the
running board of the car.
Every window on the three floors of No. 10 and No. 11
was open and filled with faces. The windows of the
Foreign Office across the way were equally full - all
except one, which was made up with sandbags. Everywhere
were people cheering. One of the women there found no
other words to express her feelings but these, "The man
who gave me back my son."
Mr. and Mrs. Chamberlain stood for a few moments on the
doorstep acknowledging the greeting. Then Mr.
Chamberlain went to a first-floor window and leaned
forward happily smiling on the people.
"My good friends," he said - it took some time to still
the clamour so that he might be heard - "this is the
second time in our history that there has come back
from Germany 'peace with honour.' I believe it is peace
for our time."
Taken from:
www.spartacus.scholnet.co.uk/2WWmunick.htm
Hitler slapped his thighs and the peace-movement in
France proclaimed: "Ne pas mourir pour Gdańsk!"