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Answer 1

1. What is the main idea of each document?
2. What bias do you detect in each document?

Documents:

D.1: Chamberlain declares peace in our time (September 30, 1938)

Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain gives this short statement as he steps off the plane
returning from the Munich Conference.

We, the German Fuehrer and Chancellor, and the British Prime Minister..., have had a further meeting today and are agreed in recognizing that the question of Anglo
German relations is of the first importance for the two countries and for Europe.

We regard the agreement signed last night and the Anglo
German Naval Agreement as symbolic of the desire of our two peoples never to go to war with one another again.
... [W]e are determined to continue our efforts to remove possible sources of difference, and thus to contribute to assure the peace of Europe.

That evening Chamberlain read this statement to a cheering crowd from the
window of his official residence at 10 Downing Street.

My good friends ... this is the second time in our history that there has come back from Germany to Downing Street peace with honor. I believe it is peace in our time.

from The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich

D.2: Duff Cooper resigns (September 30, 1938)

Duff Cooper, First Lord of the Admiralty (the civilian head of the British Navy) and a
close advisor to Chamberlain, resigned in protest over the Munich Agreement. He
describes the events in his autobiography.

The full terms of the Munich agreement are in the papers this morning. At first sight I felt that I couldn't agree to them. The principle of invasion remains. The German troops are to march in tomorrow and the Czechs are to leave all their installations intact. This means that they will have to hand over all their fortifications, guns, etc. upon which they have spent millions, and that they will receive no compensation for them ... While I was dressing this morning I decided that I must resign.
...
When I got back to the Admiralty I learnt that there was to be a Cabinet at seven. The Prime Minister arrived at about twenty past seven amid scenes of indescribable enthusiasm. He spoke to the mob from the window. I felt very lonely in the midst of so much happiness that I could not share.

The Cabinet meeting lasted little more than half an hour ... [A]fter a few questions had been asked and many congratulations had been offered, I felt it my duty to offer my resignation.

I said that not only were the terms not good enough but also that I was alarmed about the future. We must all admit that we should not have gone so far to meet Germany's demands if our defences had been stronger. It had more than once been said in Cabinet that after having turned the corner we must get on more rapidly with rearmament. But how could we do so when the Prime Minister had just informed the crowd that we had peace "for our time" and that we had entered into an agreement never to go to war with Germany.

The Prime Minister smiled at me in a quite friendly way and said that it was a matter to be settled between him and me. And so it was left ... I dined alone with Diana and went early to bed, but slept badly.

Here the diary stops and it was a long time before I started to write one again.

from Old Men Forget

D.3: Churchill speaks on the agreement in the House of Commons (October 5, 1938)

Winston Churchill, an outspoken critic of the government's policy towards Germany,
addresses Parliament on the Munich Agreement.

I will begin by saying what everybody would like to ignore or forget but
which must nevertheless be stated, namely, that we have sustained a total and unmitigated defeat ...
...
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.
...
Many people, no doubt, honestly believe that they are only giving away the interests of Czechoslovakia, whereas I fear that we shall find that we have deeply compromised, and perhaps fatally endangered, the safety and even
the independence of Great Britain and France.
...
I do not grudge our loyal, brave people, who were ready to do their duty no matter what the cost, who never flinched under the strain of last week-- I do not grudge them the natural, spontaneous outburst of joy and relief when they learned that the hard ordeal would no longer be required of them at the moment; but they should know the truth. They should know that there has been gross neglect and deficiency in our defences; they should know that we have sustained a defeat without a war, the consequences of which will travel far with us along our road; they should know that we have passed an awful milestone in our history, when the whole equilibrium of Europe has been deranged, and that the terrible words have for the time being been pronounced against the Western democracies:

"Thou art weighed in the balance and found wanting."

And do not suppose that this is the end. This is only the beginning of the reckoning. This is only the first sip, the first foretaste of a bitter cup which will be proffered to us year by year unless by a supreme recovery of moral health and martial vigour, we arise and take our stand for freedom ...

from Parliamentary Debates: House of Commons

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Answer 3

Dude... Map it out. What topic is the author covering? What is happening in the excerpt?