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Neville Chamberlain DS

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Neville Chamberlain DS
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Neville Chamberlain signed copy of ''Parliamentary Debates'' from 28 September 1938, one day before he signed the Munich Agreement with Adolf Hitler, giving away key portions of Czechoslovakia to Germany in an effort to appease the Nazis. In Chamberlain's speech that day, he outlines the process of negotiations with Hitler over the summer of 1938 and announces his acceptance of Hitler's invitation to go to Munich (upon which one anonymous MP shouts out, ''Thank God for the Prime Minister!'') Beautifully bound in marbled paper boards with leather spine and leather title label reading ''28. Sept. 1938 / Neville Chamberlain'' with two blank leaves in front, the final one signed ''Neville Chamberlain'' by the Prime Minister. Apparently bound by a political ally of Chamberlain's, MP Henry ''Chips'' Channon, whose bookplate appears on the front pastedown. Channon likely bound Chamberlain's speech as a memento of political achievement for his friend, the Prime Minister. Book runs fourteen pages, in fine condition. A scarce and important item from WWII, likely signed by Chamberlain as Prime Minister on the eve of war he desperately tried to avoid.