Munich Agreement sells out Czechoslovakia

September 29, 1938

Britain's Neville Chamberlain and France's Edouard Daladier met Hitler and Mussolini at Munich and handed over the Sudetenland without a Czech representative in the room. Chamberlain came home waving a paper and saying peace for our time to cheering crowds at Heston Aerodrome. Within six months Hitler had swallowed the rest of Czechoslovakia, and the word appeasement had acquired its permanent stain.