This morning the British Ambassador in Berlin handed the German Government a final note stating that, unless we heard from them by eleven o'clock that they were prepared at once to withdraw their troops from Poland, a state of war would exist between us.
Source: Radio broadcast from Downing Street, London, 3 Sept 1939
-- Neville Chamberlain, (Mar 18 1869-1940), English political leader; He was the conservative prime minister, 1937-40, who sought peace in our time through appeasement of Hitler.