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The silver-plated box commemorates the private flight to Munich undertaken by Charles Stewart Henry Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 7th Marquess of Londonderry, at the time of the famous Munich agreement signed by Chamberlain, Daladier, Mussolini and Hitler on 29 September 1938, which limited Hitler to the annexation of the Sudetenland, a region of Czechoslovakia inhabited by a majority of ethnic Germans, effectively granting him de facto control over all of Czechoslovakia if he promised to go no further.
On his return to London, Chamberlain proclaimed "peace for our time" rejoicing that war had been avoided and Europe rescued, however, by March 1939, Hitler' armies marched on the the rest of Czechoslovakia, which ultimately led to war.
Lord Londonderry was one of the most prominent advocates of appeasement and held close contact with Germany, often acting as an unofficial diplomat for Britain although he had left his role as secretary of state for air in 1935. Lord Londonderry, thus was in Munich at the time of the Agreement although he played no official part in the proceedings.
The silver-plated box commemorates the private flight to Munich undertaken by Charles Stewart Henry Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 7th Marquess of Londonderry, at the time of the famous Munich agreement signed by Chamberlain, Daladier, Mussolini and Hitler on 29 September 1938, which limited Hitler to the annexation of the Sudetenland, a region of Czechoslovakia inhabited by a majority of ethnic Germans, effectively granting him de facto control over all of Czechoslovakia if he promised to go no further.
On his return to London, Chamberlain proclaimed "peace for our time" rejoicing that war had been avoided and Europe rescued, however, by March 1939, Hitler' armies marched on the the rest of Czechoslovakia, which ultimately led to war.
Lord Londonderry was one of the most prominent advocates of appeasement and held close contact with Germany, often acting as an unofficial diplomat for Britain although he had left his role as secretary of state for air in 1935. Lord Londonderry, thus was in Munich at the time of the Agreement although he played no official part in the proceedings.