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How horrible, fantastic, incredible, it is that
we should be digging trenches and trying on gas-masks here because of a
quarrel in a far-away country between people of whom we know nothing.
Neville Chamberlain
(1869–1940), British statesman, September 27, 1938.
Referring to Germany's annexation of the
Sudetenland.
The Times (London) (September
28, 1938).