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My good friends the mustached bony man with thick eyebrows and large strong teeth somewhat reminiscent of those of a horse shouted to the crowds from the secondfloor window of his house at 10 Downing Street this is the second time in our history that there has come back to Downing Street from Germany peace with honor I believe it is peace for our time The man addressing the crowd British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain had just returned from the heart of Nazi Germany following negotiations with Adolf Hitler and the crowd gathered outside the English leaders house on September 30 1938 greeted these ringing words with grateful cheers The piece of paper Chamberlain flourished exultantly seemed to offer permanent amity and goodwill between democratic Britain and totalitarian Germany In it Britain agreed to allow Hitlers Third Reich to absorb the Sudeten regions of Czechoslovakia without interference from either England or France and since high percentages of ethnic Germans often more than 50 locally inhabited these regions Hitlers demand for this territory seemed somewhat reasonable to Chamberlain and his supporters With Germany resurgent and rearmed after the disasters inflicted on it by the Treaty of Versailles following World War I the pact known as the Munich Agreement held out hope of a quick end to German ambitions and the return of stable normal international relations across Europe