Peace for our time?

In September, 1938, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain struck a deal with Adolph Hitler. Britain (and France) would allow Germany to seize the parts of Czechoslovakia that were inhabited by ethnic Germans (the Sudetenland), in exchange for a promise not to make any further advances on the country. Upon returning home, he declared that he had insured “peace for our time.”  A few months later, Hitler grabbed all of Czechoslovakia.

In my book entitled The Midas Paradox, I cited a NYT...