“All is over. Silent, mournful, abandoned, broken, Czechoslovakia recedes into the darkness.”

— Winston S. Churchill

Speech https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1938/oct/05/policy-of-his-majestys-government#column_364 in the House of Commons (5 October 1938) against the Munich Agreement
The 1930s
Context: All is over. Silent, mournful, abandoned, broken, Czechoslovakia recedes into the darkness. She has suffered in every respect by her association with the Western democracies and with the League of Nations, of which she has always been an obedient servant.

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