Why did Chamberlin sign the Munich Agreement on 30 September 1938?
In this essay I am going to explain why Chamberlin signed the Munich agreement. On 30th September 1938 Neville Chamberlin, the British Prime Minister landed in London having returned from the Munich conference. At the airport he held up a piece of paper which he and Adolf Hitler had signed. He said that it was ‘peace in our time’. But it was not.