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ADDRESS BY PRIME MINISTER NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN FROM
LONDON (RADIO)

Summary

A live broadcast from London, England, of British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's speech following his meeting with German Chancellor Adolf Hitler. Chamberlain announces that he has "done all that one man can do to compose this quarrel" and hopes that Czechoslovakia will avoid a confrontation and give Hitler his sole territorial ambition: the Sudetenland. Despite his efforts to achieve a peaceful resolution, Chamberlain urges all Britons to continue their precautionary military and defensive buildup. The broadcast concludes with five minutes of music. (This program is a duplicate of R91:0146.)

Details

• NETWORK: NBC
• DATE: September 27, 1938 2:00 PM
• RUNNING TIME: 0:15:00
• COLOR/B&W: N/A
• CATALOG ID: R91:0144
• GENRE: Radio - News
• SUBJECT HEADING: Czechoslovakia - History - 1938; Germany - History - 1938; Great Britain - Foreign relations - Germany; Great Britain - Officials - Talk/Interviews; Sudetenland (Czechoslovakia)
• SERIES RUN: NBC - Radio, 1938
• COMMERCIALS: N/A

CREDITS

• Neville Chamberlain … Speaker
• Adolf Hitler

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