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2 Neville Chamberlain, national broadcast, London, September 27, 1938. In Robert C. Self, Neville Chamberlain: A Biography, London: Ashgate Publishing, 2006.
3 Neville Chamberlain, speech, September 30, 1938. Full text available via the Modern History Sourcebook at www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1938PEACE.html.
4 Adolf Hitler, speech, January 30, 1939. Available at www.historyplace.com.
5 Neville Chamberlain, national broadcast, London, September 3, 1939. Full text available on the BBC website at http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/special_report/1999/08/99/world_war_ii/430071.stm.
6 “Unconditional surrender,” Toronto Daily Star, May 7, 1945. Available via the Toronto Star archives at www.pagesofthepast.ca.
7 Klement Gottwald, speech, Prague, April 1945. In Bradley F. Abrams, The Struggle for the Soul of the Nation: Czech Culture and the Rise of Communism, Lanham (MD): Rowman & Littlefield, 2005.
8 “We and They,” Toronto Star, September 27, 1947. Available via the Toronto Star Archives at www.pagesofthepast.ca.
9 “Lesson for appeasers seen as Bolshevists grab Czechoslovakia,” Toronto Star, February 26, 1948. Available via the Toronto Star Archives at www.pagesofthepast.ca.
10 In Ken Lawrence, John Lennon in His Own Words, Kansas City: Andrews McMeel Publishing, 2005.
11 Václav Havel, “The Declaration of the Civic Forum by Representative Václav Havel on Wenceslas Square,” Making the History of 1989, Item #509. Excerpt available at http://chnm.gmu.edu/1989/items/show/509.
12 Peter Cipkowski, Revolution in Eastern Europe, New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1991.
13 “Czechoslovaks Celebrate Ouster of Communists,” Toronto Star, December 11, 1989. Available via the Toronto Star archives at www.pagesofthepast.ca.
14 “Admirers aplenty for city of romance,” Sunday Star-Times, May 31, 1998. Accessed through HighBeam Research at www.highbeam.com, July 13, 2009.
15 “Prague still hasn’t gotten the message,” Washington Post, November 14, 1989. Accessed through HighBeam Research at www.highbeam.com, July 8, 2009.