Neville Chamberlain15 September 1938
Chamberlain met Hitler at Berchtesgaden and heard his demand that German-majority districts be transferred from Czechoslovakia.
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Chamberlain met Hitler at Berchtesgaden and heard his demand that German-majority districts be transferred from Czechoslovakia.
Halifax reviewed Chamberlain's Berchtesgaden report and coordinated consultations with France.
Chamberlain met Hitler again and presented the Anglo-French proposals accepted by Czechoslovakia.
Chamberlain returned from Godesberg without agreement and submitted Hitler's memorandum to the Cabinet.
Chamberlain broadcast that Britain should not rush into war over a distant dispute while negotiations remained possible.
Duff Cooper argued within the Cabinet that further concessions would strengthen Hitler and weaken British credibility.
Halifax coordinated diplomatic warnings and Cabinet preparations during the final days before the Munich conference.
The Sudetenland is ceded to Germany & Teschen is ceded to Poland. Ruthenia & a part of Slovakia is ceded to Hungary
Chamberlain attended the four-power conference without representatives of Czechoslovakia present at the negotiations.
Chamberlain displayed the Anglo-German declaration after returning to Britain and described the settlement as peace with honour.
Declares from 10 Downing St there will be "peace for our time". Brings "peace with honor"
Chamberlain told the crowd at Downing Street that he believed the settlement meant peace for their time.
Agreed in the early hours, Chamberlain & Daladier must break it to the Czechs
Chamberlain and Hitler signed a separate Anglo-German declaration expressing a desire to resolve future disputes through consultation.
Chamberlain signed the Munich Agreement in the early hours after the four powers settled the evacuation timetable.
Duff Cooper resigned from the Cabinet because he opposed the Munich settlement and Chamberlain's policy.
The most public critic of Neville Chamberlains appeasement policy inside the Cabinet, resigns over the Munich Agreement
Chamberlain opened the Commons debate by defending the agreement as an alternative to immediate war.
The Commons debate on the Munich Agreement begins
Eden abstained in the Commons division rather than endorse the Munich settlement.
Abstains in the Commons on the Munich Agreement vote
Chamberlain declared that Germany's destruction of Czechoslovakia had undermined the assumptions behind the Munich policy.
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