| Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989. | | | |
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| | | NUMBER: | 2050 |
| AUTHOR: | Neville Chamberlain (1869–1940) |
| QUOTATION: | How horrible, fantastic, incredible it is that we should be digging trenches and trying on gas masks here because of a quarrel in a far-away country between people of whom we know nothing. It seems still more impossible that a quarrel which has already been settled in principle should be the subject of war. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN, national broadcast, London, September 27, 1938.—Chamberlain, In Search of Peace, p. 174 (1939). He was prime minister at the time. |
| SUBJECTS: | World War II (1939–1945) |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia | | |
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