Edouard Daladier and Neville Chamberlain at the Munich Conference, September 29, 1938.
Munich Agreement : British Prime Minister Chamberlain proclaims “My good friends, for the second time in our history a British Prime Minister has returned from Germany bringing peace with honour. I believe it is peace for our time." before reporters at Heston airfield near London, September 30, 1938.
In a speech given in Defense of the Munich Agreement, 1938, the Prime Minister declared :“ In my view the strongest force of all, one which grew and took fresh shapes and forms every day war, the force not of any one individual, but was that unmistakable sense of unanimity among the peoples of the world that war must somehow be averted. The peoples of the British Empire were at one with those of Germany, of France and of Italy, and their anxiety, their intense desire for peace, pervaded the whole atmosphere of the conference, and I believe that that, and not threats, made possible the concessions that were made. “
Signature des Accords de Munich : Daladier est acclamé au Bourget, à sa sortie de l'avion le ramenant vers Paris, pour avoir « sauvé la paix. » Seuls les communistes votent contre. Léon Blum, bien qu'il vote pour les accords, est partagé entre «un lâche soulagement et la honte».