Munich Reconsidered

Our leaders who created the Munich Agreement claim that they are preserving peace between their nations and Germany for years to come. However, this could not be further from the truth. Rather than acting as the final step in peace negotiations, letting Germany proceed with these injustices will be the first step in Germany's climb to power.

In the final agreement - an agreement that only three other European leaders decided to ratify - there is no consideration for the rights of humans. For non-Germans living in Czechoslovakia, there is no clause that even mentions their evacuation, and nothing prevents the Germans from turning to violence. Because the Germans control the plebiscites, a majority of people who would make a difference are not given the right to vote on the decision. The only party that this injustice benefits is the Germans in their rise to power.

And this certainly does not fosters peace and friendly relations between our countries. Chamberlain champions the agreement as though it is peace itself, but this is only an act of temporary appeasement. Germany is allowed to expand its boundaries again through this unjust annexation. But Germany will not stop there when the rest of Europe, evidently, will allow it much more. How many more restrictions does Germany wish to free itself of? Is this the end of tension between nations or the signal of the Germany's militaristic rise to power once again?