October 1, 2025
A New Dawn.
No conquering hero from a victory on a battlefield has come home adorned with nobler laurels than Mr. Chamberlain from Munich yesterday, and King and people alike have shown him by the manner of their reception their sense of his achievement.
The terms of settlement of the Czech–German dispute reached in the small hours of the morning…had been seen to deliver the world from a menace of extreme horror while doing rough-and-ready justice between the conflicting claims.
Yet even this great service to humanity was already beginning to appear as the lesser half of the Prime Minister’s work in Munich. He himself announced it as the prelude of a larger settlement.
This does not answer the question: was Chamberlain buying time so that England and the Commonwealth would be more prepared for the inevitable prior to WWII (eleven months later) OR was he duped by Hitler?
The headline A NEW DAWN suggests that Chamberlain and the Times were both duped.
Did The Times comment on its 1938 leader?
No idea.