How horrible, fantastic, incredible, it is that we should be digging trenches and trying on gas-masks here because of a quarrel in a faraway country between people of whom we know nothing.
Source: Referring to Germany's annexation of the Sudetenland. Radio broadcast, 27 Sept 1938
-- 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.