| − | :[[Martin Niemöller]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Martin Niemöller: "First They Came For The Socialists..." |publisher=United States Holocaust Memorial Museum |url=http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007392 |accessdate=March 8, 2014}}</ref>|group=note}} Few hours before the [[Führer]]’s ultimatum related to territorial claims in [[Sudetenland]] at the expense of [[Czechoslovakia|Czecho-Slovakia]] would expire, [[Neville Chamberlain]], the Prime Minister of [[Great Britain]], asked Mussolini to "save the peace" by intervening. In his reply, "Herr Hitler" agreed to postpone his mobilization for twenty-four hours and invited Chamberlain to meet in conference at Munich. After Chamberlain brought the news to [[House of Commons (UK)|House of Commons]], the whole house burst into a roar of cheering. Men all round, except few remaining in their benches, were shouting: ''"Get up! Get up! Thank God for the Prime Minister!"'' One man who remained silent and seated—with his head sunk on his shoulders, his whole demeanor depicting something between anger and despair, was [[Winston Churchill]].<ref name="Guinness">{{cite book|first=Os |last=Guinness|editor= Virginia Mooney Withrow|title=When No One Sees: Character and Leadership in an Age of Image|publisher=[http://www.ttf.org/ TheTrinityForum.org]|location=McLean, Virginia|year=2007|pages=73-77|isbn= 1-57683-159-0}}</ref> | + | :[[Martin Niemöller]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Martin Niemöller: "First They Came For The Socialists..." |publisher=United States Holocaust Memorial Museum |url=http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007392 |accessdate=March 8, 2014}}</ref>|group=note}} A few hours before the [[Führer]]’s ultimatum related to territorial claims in [[Sudetenland]] at the expense of [[Czechoslovakia|Czecho-Slovakia]] would have expired, [[Neville Chamberlain]], the Prime Minister of [[Great Britain]], asked Mussolini to "save the peace" by intervening. In his reply, "Herr Hitler" agreed to postpone his mobilization for twenty-four hours and invited Chamberlain to meet in conference at Munich. After Chamberlain brought the news to [[House of Commons (UK)|House of Commons]], the whole house burst into a roar of cheering. Men all round, except few remaining in their benches, were shouting: ''"Get up! Get up! Thank God for the Prime Minister!"'' One man who remained silent and seated—with his head sunk on his shoulders, his whole demeanor depicting something between anger and despair, was [[Winston Churchill]].<ref name="Guinness">{{cite book|first=Os |last=Guinness|editor= Virginia Mooney Withrow|title=When No One Sees: Character and Leadership in an Age of Image|publisher=[http://www.ttf.org/ TheTrinityForum.org]|location=McLean, Virginia|year=2007|pages=73-77|isbn= 1-57683-159-0}}</ref> |
| | Chamberlain believed Hitler when the latter vowed that restoring their beloved homeland to the mistreated Sudetendeutsche was his last territorial demand. The Prime Minister treated Czechoslovakia, a “faraway country,” only as the “Czech problem” on his desk and not as a land inhabited by real people. Churchill adopted a different attitude; he had studied Adolf Hitler’s career with intensity and was aware of the history of broken promises and “last territorial claims” including the [[Versailles Treaty]], the [[Causes_of_World_War_II#Munich_1938|Locarno Pact]], the [[Rhineland]], and [[Anschluss|Austria]]. | | Chamberlain believed Hitler when the latter vowed that restoring their beloved homeland to the mistreated Sudetendeutsche was his last territorial demand. The Prime Minister treated Czechoslovakia, a “faraway country,” only as the “Czech problem” on his desk and not as a land inhabited by real people. Churchill adopted a different attitude; he had studied Adolf Hitler’s career with intensity and was aware of the history of broken promises and “last territorial claims” including the [[Versailles Treaty]], the [[Causes_of_World_War_II#Munich_1938|Locarno Pact]], the [[Rhineland]], and [[Anschluss|Austria]]. |