"It took the Big Four just five hours and twenty five minutes here in Munich today to dispel the clouds of war and come to an agreement over the partition of Czechoslovakia. There is to be no European war, after all. There is to be peace, and the price of that peace is, roughly, the ceding by Czechoslovakia of the Sudeten territory to Herr Hitler's Germany. The German Führer gets what he wanted, only he has to wait a little longer for it. Not much longer though — only ten days. . . ." Source: William Shirer, recording of CBS radio report from Prague, September 29, 1938 dotted notes no long notes
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In this report, William Shirer states that the Big Four (referring to the leaders of Germany, Italy, France, and Great Britain) took just five hours and twenty-five minutes to come to an agreement over the partition of Czechoslovakia in Munich. This agreement aims to prevent a European war and establish peace. The price of this peace is the ceding of the Sudeten territory by Czechoslovakia to Germany under Adolf Hitler. Shirer mentions that Hitler will have to wait only ten more days to obtain this territory. The report is a recording of a CBS radio report from Prague on September 29, 1938.
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